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I Command You to Eat

It’s Erev Yom Kippur, so everyone get eating! Just as there is a commandment to fast on Yom Kippur, there ...

Kol Nidrei for the Ages

Yesterday on Slate (apparent my new go-to blog for Jewish content other than Mixed Multitudes), Michael Weiss shared the history ...

Pink Ribbons and Yom Kippur

It’s October, which, as you may have noticed is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and there’s a pink ribbon on everything ...

Shana Tova from the Bottom of the World

I’m the helpdesk manager here at MJL — which means that any question that gets sent to the site drops ...

A Yom Kippur Poem

From Slate’s weekly poem collection. Click here to listen to the author Philip Schultz read it. You are asked to ...

The High Holidays are nuts!

I thought I’d heard of all the major High Holiday customs–fish heads or goat heads on the table, kaparot, and ...

Anorexia and fasting on Yom Kippur

This week we’re all gearing up for the big fast starting on Wednesday night, so I’ve been reviewing the rules ...

Sway Machinery: Now, Take Them Home

The Sway Machinery, who were the subjects of an interview in these pages right before Rosh Hashanah, are celebrating a ...

Why Didn’t the Chicken Get to Cross the Road?

It’s that time of year again. That time when I can’t decide whether to stand with my holy-but-barbaric brothers and ...

I should have majored in Marketing.

As I’ve previously made hints to, I’m a pretty big Sacramento Kings fan.  So when I was in Sacramento last ...

Yossele Rosenblatt Comes Back to Life

When we talk about amazing Jewish music that came out of the first half of the last century, it’s a ...

Asking Forgiveness

I don’t know about you, but I’m constantly haunted.It might just be my social awkwardness speaking (because, really, when’s the ...

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