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Hope, Not Fear

Edgar M. Bronfman is among the Jewish community’s leading philanthropists, and his commitment to this website in particular has been ...

Spectacles of Devotion: Ani vs. Adi

I love listening to songs first thing in the morning. I have a habit of waking up in a very ...

No more Palin. After this…

Sharon Brous, the rabbi at LA’s Ikar minyan, has a upfront, provocative piece in On Faith about vice presidential candidate ...

Everyone is Amalek

The commandment to wipe out the nation of Amalek is, perhaps, one of the most morally complicated parts of the ...

Smoking and Jewish Law

As a new parent, I’ve become suddenly and acutely sensitive to smoking. While I used to personally detest it and ...

How do you help…?

This morning on the subway, I was scribbling away in my notebook — scrunched up, as usual, between a 300-pound ...

Religious. Gay. You’ve heard this, right?

Earlier this year, the Israeli website HOD launched. It’s a Hebrew acronym that roughly translates to “religious and gay.” It’s ...

Jewish Magic

A couple of weeks ago, a California man named Naftoli Smolyansky disappeared during a boating trip after jumping in the ...

Judgment Day

It’s the month of Elul, the time when we begin the introspection that culminates with the High Holidays. So I ...

P(r)aying for a Blessing

On the way out of work yesterday, I was a little dazed — possibly by the sun, possibly by the ...

Literature Rodeo

From our friends at Jbooks. The Daily Show’s resident Brit John Oliver sounds off on apocalyptic literature. Eschatology and comedy: ...

Eyes to See with, Photos to Kvell over

Score one (more) for budding innovative technologies in Israel: at Beit Ha’iver, the Center of the Blind, in Herzliya, a ...

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