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