Mixed Multitudes
What Rhymes With Jewish?
Bluish? Newish? Shrewish? Trueish (a cousin of truthiness)?Get on your thinking caps, because we’re launching a Bad Poetry Contest to ...
NYC Prep: Semite Style
Since my intellectual prowess in all things Gossip Girl has clearly been proven on Mixed Multitudes, it’s no shocker that ...
Underworld Aristocracy
When I first became obsessed with books, at the age of 9 or so, my Russian parents proudly told me: ...
Dvar Torah: Live, Tonight, On Stage
Tonight I’m giving a dvar torah, and I’m nervous. So I set my Twitter status to say exactly that. My ...
Evangelical Tractate Bonanza, or, My Christian-Take-on-Jewish-Holidays Learning
Secret disclosure #481516: I like to collect evangelical Christian tractates.Since I’ve become a parent and gotten a regular gig — ...
The White Smoke Rises from the Chimneys at 25 Broadway…
… announcing that friend of MJL Jerry Silverman has been tapped as the new Pope, er, President and CEO of ...
Israel & the Media
Whether the BBC is pro-Israel or anti-Israel may well depend on what time period you collect the data from–and who ...
Extra! New York Times Runs Story about Jews!
What’s the key to any ultra-popular Jewish news story? Start out with a question — a popular Jewish activity, asking ...
Maccabiah Games Score a Major Coup
Michael Phelps must be too good for everybody. Why should anyone attend the World Swimming Championships just to compete for ...
ROI Roundup: Saying “Shalom” to Israel (for now)
As a satirist and a cynic, you would think that at the conclusion of ROI, I would have a laundry ...
ROI 120 Roundup: Text Study, Dylan, and Twitter
I woke up Wednesday morning with a new bounce in my step. Today was the day I was going to ...
Out of Isolation
I was thrilled to see Benjamin Greene’s thoughtful article in PresenTense Magazine (“Outside the Bubble: Integration in Education,†Issue 8, ...