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No Porn on Shabbos!

I don’t like porn. I definitely don’t like porn on Shabbat. It’s not a double mitzvah if you’re doing it ...

Unmasking Agunot

Among the religious community, there’s a huge problem of agunot — that is, women who want a divorce from their ...

Is Sex a Basic Human Right?

Over the weekend I watched one of my favorite movies for the millionth time: High Fidelity. In the movie, the ...

How Jews Look

This isn’t how it was supposed to be.We at MyJewishLearning often find ourselves in a predicament. On one hand, we’re ...

Jewish Identity

There are many different ways to identify as Jewish.

Marcus Freed: Being King Solomon

Marcus Freed is a man of many talents — actor, writer, poet, impresario. He is the inventor of Bibliyoga, a ...

Jewish Secularism

Is Jewish secularism possible?

Conversion in Israel: An Arduous Journey

Jumping through hoops may look easy to this observant couple who sought an Orthodox conversion in Israel.

History of Adult Bar/Bat Mitzvah

The initial impetus for adult bar/bat mitzvah came from men who, having missed the ceremony as adolescents, felt somehow incomplete as Jews.

It Turns Out Mel Gibson is Misunderstood.

A friend of mine passed this along to me and I thought it was worth sharing. Everyone’s favorite conservative magazine, ...

Wedding Bell Blues

Last night, Stereo Sinai–that is, my friends Alan Jay Sufrin and Miriam Brosseau–got married. It was a ceremony worthy of ...

People of The Book

Last week at JELO, a weekly interdenominational learning program at NYU’s Bronfman Center, Rabbi Yehuda Sarna, the University Chaplain entered ...

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