Mixed Multitudes
Tweet One Your Love
Okay, I’m not Stevie Wonder, and chances are you aren’t, either — but let’s not forget the grand Jewish tradition ...
Find Me an Online Match!
After speaking with Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger, and Orthodox matchmaker Chana Rachel Frumin, I wanted to speak with someone who ...
Friday Night Music and Women as Orthodox Clergy
There has been a marked growth in the use of instrumental music for Friday night services, including a rise in ...
Many Old Jews, Just One Number
Old Jews Telling Jokes has a tried, tested, and true formula. It goes something like this: Old Jews + Jokes ...
How to Hate the Gays
Last night I was working at our local co-op market. The crowd there is pretty diverse — Hasidic Jews, Caribbean ...
Cooling Off: A Look Back
Only a few days ago I finished saying Kaddish, and today was the day my mother would have turned 56. ...
Rest of the Best. I Mean, Best of the Rest
How was everyone’s fast? Mine was yummy. Thanks for asking (Okay, I fasted. I promise).We’ve had a good week here ...
Secrets of an Orthodox Matchmaker
Chana Rachel Frumin is the director and founder of the Jerusalem Narrative Family Therapy Institute, where she is a marriage ...
Judd Apatow Reads Our Blog (Or Slate)
I mean, who can blame the guy, right? Judd Apatow, promoting his new film, Funny People (Which I’m so confused ...
Gay Jewish Hip-Hop Saturday Night
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.In hip-hop, Soce the Elemental Wizard is as self-aware as it gets. Not that you ...
Family Matters
A man is unable to marry because the Israeli Rabbinate decides that he is actually an adoptee, although there is ...
I’d JDate him!
It’s the time of year when the Jewish calendar turns to love–Tu B’Av (which falls on August 5th this year). ...