Mixed Multitudes
Just You Wait
One of the stand-out sessions for me at this year’s LimmudNY was a panel called Can You Hear My Now? ...
Shabbat at LimmudNY
OR: Tales of a Postdenominational Jew at a Postdenominational Conference.This is my first year at LimmudNY, and I didn’t quite ...
The Spinka Scandal
The ever-insightful Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein has an interesting and sobering post over at Cross-Currents about the Spinka Hasid tax fraud ...
Gossip Girl Does Have Jews
Much has been written in the New York blogosphere about the real-ness quotient on CW’s addicting new hit Gossip Girl. ...
God is not spontaneous
There’s an old saying “Man plans and God laughs,” but recently I realized that, in the Bible, it’s God who ...
Who are you voting for?
With primary season in full swing, I thought I’d poll you, dear readers, on who you think you’ll be voting ...
Heeb, Seriously
No joke. Heeb magazine’s humor editor David Deutsch takes on Brandeis professor Jonathan Sarna in an op-ed in this week’s ...
Digging the Bible
Since 2006, Slate editor Daivd Plotz has been “blogging the Bible.” Unsettled by reading the story of the rape of ...
West Bank Outposts
–An overview of the unauthorized settlement outposts in the West Bank finds there to be over 100 at present. Ariel ...
The Rule of Law in Israel
-In a number of cities “intransigent registrars and rabbis” are refusing to recognize state-sanctioned conversions to Judaism, and it is ...
Who is a Jew?
From the Dallas Morning News Religion Blog:ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri inmate once labeled a white supremacist is fighting ...
Avenue Q In Israel
Ever wonder what happens when shows tour the globe? How do cultural references and idioms get translated? Jewschool has an ...