Mixed Multitudes
The Cabalist’s Daughter
The Cabalist’s Daughter is a bipolar sort of book. On one hand, it’s a crazy, unhinged vision of the Chabad-Lubavitch ...
Who’s Your Mommy?
About six months ago I went out to coffee with some friends who, after about an hour of chitchat, gently ...
Fine, We’ll Return the Pound of Flesh.
There are a lot of news stories about anti-Semitism. I just searched the term on Google News, and five pages ...
Nice Jewish Girls Get Hit
This weeks marks the anniversary of an event I don’t really like to talk about. At some point in college ...
This Week in “Are They Jewish?”
Last week, I got an e-mail from my mom. It was only one line and it read, “Do you know ...
Careful, Or I’ll Slap You With A Moist Piece of Liver
Sometime during all of the Agriprocessors brouhaha I heard that there had been a kosher meat boycott in 1902. I ...
Poll: Durban II
While Mixed Multitudes hasn’t talked much about it, there has been a lot of media coverage concerning this week’s UN ...
Wise Fridays: The Most Difficult Commandment
Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai taught: The Holy One has [only] revealed the reward for obeying two commandments in the Torah: ...
How Jews Eat
Just in time for a return to the b-word — you know, the one that some people won’t even say ...
From The Academy: Paul Lerner
This installment of From the Academy, comes from University of Southern California Associate Professor of History Paul Lerner. The piece ...
The Koren Sacks Siddur: Jewish Prayerbook 2.0
In a few weeks, a new siddur is hitting the market with a translation and commentary by Rabbi Dr. Jonathan ...
Words Cannot Explain My Excitement
Go visit your local college campus. Walk into the Hillel House and take a look at the different clubs that ...