Mixed Multitudes
Blogging Avot: Bad Neighbors
Pirkei Avot 1:7 is a short mishnah with further advice about who to (and in this case, who not to) ...
Lakewood FBI Report Fabricated
At the end of March, I blogged a report I’d seen from Yeshiva World News about a man posing as ...
Speedy Delivery
As some of you might have noticed from earlier blog posts, the synagogue I now attend is a bit old-fashioned. ...
Yad Vashem on YouTube
It seems like everyone is taking advantage of new outlets online. Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum of Israel, has ...
Israel & Syria
-Turkey is readying efforts to get Israel-Syria talks underway. (Haaretz)-Looking at the substantial domestic opposition to a deal with Syria ...
From the Academy: The Wandering Jew
In this installment of From the Academy Dr. Galit Hasan Rokem, Max and Margarethe Grunwald Chair of Folklore at the Hebrew ...
Blogging Avot: Friends & Teachers
Pirkei Avot 1:6 continues the conversation about social ethics, which began in Mishnah 4. 1:6 – Joshua ben Perachyah and ...
Books about the Shoah
-The distinction between the Holocaust’s meanings and its facts “highlights a central issue in the broader debate about what it ...
What About Floss?
Do you use a special toothbrush and toothpaste to brush your teeth on Shabbat? If not, it appears that you’re ...
Blogging Avot: Watch Out for Women
The fourth and fifth mishnayot of Pirkei Avot Chapter 1 begin a series of teachings about ethical socializing — and ...
Holocaust Collections and Connections
-A project sets its goal to collect 1.5 million crayons to commemorate the 1.5 million children who perished in the ...
Mah Jongg, Anyone?
Oh Jay Firestone. Replace “Twenty-three” with “Twenty-six” and “male” with “female” and you actually have me: The Next Intergenerational Mah ...