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Best of the Rest

It’s that time of the week again. I tell you what you missed on MJL and you expand your mind. ...

Learning From Sotah

This week’s Torah portion discusses the sotah, a woman suspected of adultery, who’s is forced to drink “bitter water” to ...

Interview with DeScribe: “Makin’ It” with Y-Love

A few years ago, I was asked (by another publication) to track down this Hasidic rapper who seemed to come ...

Wise Fridays: Thinking & Judging

“In analyzing or evaluating an object, we think and judge from a particular point of view. The psychologist, economist, and ...

Uhhhh Wrong Choice of Words?

Everyone, by now, must have heard about the scary terror plot at two synagogues in the Bronx. Luckily, the FBI ...

Jonathan Safran Foer Eats Food.

A marvelous, funny, and just pleasant-to-read interview with Jonathan Safran Foer has just appeared on The Young and Hungry, serving ...

All Hitler All the Time

I have a confession to make: I kind of like Holocaust movies. I wouldn’t go so far as to have ...

At Least He Didn’t Draw Muhammad

Last night, my favorite episode of The Office, “Diversity Day,” aired on TBS. It is actually the second episode ever ...

From the Academy: Sephardic Studies

The flourishing of Jewish Studies in American universities has been one of the crucial stories in Jewish culture since World ...

From the Academy Revisited

Regular readers of Mixed Multitudes may be familiar with our feature “From the Academy,” in which we interview professors about ...

So Punk Rock (the trailer)

When I was an early teenager, there were two rites of passage that I went through. One, at 13, was ...

Supper Clubs versus Shabbat Dinners: Shabbat Dinners FTW!

Recently I started reading a lot about supper clubs, or underground dinner parties, and how they’re sweeping the nation. Here’s ...

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