Mixed Multitudes

I wanted to pass along this feature article about Omri Casspi in Ha’aretz. The difference between this piece and my ...

Most of my favorite Talmud stories center around Yalta. She’s a Talmud-era commentator who’s sometimes thought to be Rav Nachman’s ...

Inbal Freund-Novick is an organizational consultant and co-founder of The Unmasked Comics Project, a social change comics venture with comics ...

It’s that time of the week again. This week’s links are dedicated to people who don’t have time to read. ...

Are there really more Muslims than Jews in the US? (Chicago Jewish News)Should Jews shun “Messianic Jews“? (Beliefnet)Soli Shahvar, Amos ...

How geeky and sixth-grade USY nightmare does that sound? Okay, so Facebook is collecting your private data. And it’s going ...

If you look carefully on our homepage, you’ll catch a new feature. Candlelighting times by zip code. Just pop in ...

Every boy has dreams. Some want to be firefighters. Others want to be doctors. I, like many others, wanted to ...

Rava said to Rav Papa and to Rav Huna b. Rav Yehoshua: If a written ruling of mine comes to ...

Um, very. A recent bat mitzvah party in Stamford Connecticut had to be cleared out by the police because 14-year-olds ...

Bernie Madoff related stories are always tough to read, especially when it comes to Jewish organizations that he has ruined ...

Can a person be too evil to convert to Judaism? (Forward)Says Julie Wiener, “I, a liberal intermarried Jew feel ambivalent ...