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Special Confession
The Washington Post has an interesting article about the Vatican’s “tribunal of conscience” which is an extra special level of ...
Jewish Words and Knee-Jerk Reactions
Yesterday, Jason bolted out of his office with the news that a plane had crashed into the Hudson.Caught in conversation, ...
Dropping the S Bomb
I have a friend in his fifties who has been dating for about thirty years now. He’s a smart, interesting ...
Boxing for the Lord
Dmitriy Salita is a Ukranian-born, Brooklyn-raised boxer who, at the age of 26, has an undefeated record over 26 career ...
Halakha and Avoiding Civilian casualties
England’s Jewish Chronicle is running a great Op-Ed by Daniel Reisel about the Jewish legal obligation to avoid civilian casualties ...
The Tao of Jewish Music (and the Hebrew Alphabet)
The new issue of the Blue Jew Yorker is out and, as far as literary magazines go, this one couldn’t ...
Depression and Prayer
A few years ago, right about the time I was becoming religious, I started getting hit with Seasonal Affective Disorder. ...
The Holocaust, the First War in Lebanon, and Gaza Today
Last night a friend and I went to go see Waltz With Bashir, the animated Israeli film about memories of ...
Blending Traditions on Hanukkah
Motherlode, the parenting blog at NYTimes.com, has a really interesting post with a new twist on the age-old problem of ...
Are Nuns Too Forgiving?
I’m dying to see the new Meryl Streep movie, Doubt, about a nun with a bone to pick, but in ...
Inter-racial Intermarriage: What’s Taboo and What’s Not
There’s a fascinating back-and-forth over at The Atlantic between Jeffrey Goldberg and Ta-Nehisi about exoticism and intermarriage in the black ...
Note to Self: Do Not Name Child ‘Shanda’
There was a really cute baby in the MJL office today, and it got us talking about baby names and ...