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(Guest)blogging from JOFA

The title of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance’s 10th anniversary conference (held this weekend in New York) was Passion and ...

Teaching Your Children about Derech Eretz

How to raise a family of mensches.

Science & Judaism

I’m pleased to announce MJL’s newest section: Science & Judaism.We’ll be rolling out some more content (including a sub-section on ...

Debating Social Justice, Pt. II

Steven over at Canonist has written a thoughtful reply to yesterday’s posting about his debate with Dan Sieradski. I had ...

Debating Social Justice

Generally, it’s not fun to see your friends fight, but when the fight is over the soul of Judaism, it’s ...

Liberalism and Intermarriage

As I mentioned on Friday, much of David Klinghoffer’s diagnosis of liberal pluralism (as he experienced it at Limmud NY) ...

Klinghoffer on Liberalism

This week’s Forward features a harsh, but disciplined critique of “liberal pluralism” by David Klinghoffer. The article consists of Klinghoffer’s ...

Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin was one of the most idiosyncratic 20th century intellectuals. Though his formal academic training was in philosophy, he ...

Kabbalah Centre

Though I have mixed feelings about the Kabbalah Centre, I do feel that the mainstream Jewish community and press has, ...

Renewal Rabbis

This just in from JTA: Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, founder and leader of Jewish Renewal, ordained two rabbis, two rabbinic pastors ...

Free Will Today

The New York Times last week had an interesting article on free will and the current scientific debate about whether ...

Jewish Film, 1990-Present

A survey of recent American and International Jewish cinema.

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