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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 ...

Repentance & Prostitution

We’re in the midst of aseret yemei teshuva  — the Ten Days of Repentance — so I thought I’d share ...

Playing Hookie

So while Jews across the country were locked inside Rosh Hashanah services for the past two days, the world outside ...

The Fast of Gedaliah

Answer us, God, on this day of fasting, because we are in great pain. This morning, when I read the ...

“Rosh Hashana” is a nicer way of saying Screwing Up Less Often

Oh, yeah — we hit it again. Two parking tickets this morning, and one’s more than $100. Man, this Rosh ...

Rosh Hashanah In The News

Every year, thousands of men abandon their families on the High Holidays to prostrate the grave of Rebbe Nachman of ...

New Fruit Poll

With Rosh Hashanah around the corner, we here at My Jewish Learning are wondering what you will use as your ...

Digging Your Own Graveyard Book

When you’re an observant Jew and you have more than a passing interest in the non-observant world, it can cause ...