Mixed Multitudes

Yesterday I posted an interview I did with Joshua Henkin, author of the new novel Matrimony. Now here’s an excerpt ...

MJL contributing writer Jessica Kraft has just launched a website featuring the contemporary ketubot that she designs for soon-to-be married ...

Joshua Henkin’s new novel Matrimony hits bookstores today. You can read a description of the book here and order it ...

Lots has been put out there in the Jewish world (particularly the blogging community) about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit ...

-Moshe Elad argues that cutting off Gaza electricity would give the Palestinians a propaganda bonanza: “every natural death of an ...

The holiday of Sukkot is associated with the fall harvest, and serving stuffed foods is a symbolic and flavorful way ...

The wonderful Peter Cole — a poet, publisher, and translator — has received a MacArthur “genius” award. The fellowship, given ...

Jennifer Bleyer, founding editor of Heeb Magazine, has an essay on the continued meaning that the Jewish Catalog has for her ...

I’ve been woefully under-engaged with the Democratic presidential campaigns, but last night I got a free ticket to Barack Obama’s ...

Yesterday New Jersey officials confirmed that a swastika covering several acres was cut into a field in Washington Township. Police ...

Today is your last chance to get a free subscription to the Forward when you make a tax-deductible donation to ...

-Doing Sukkot in Kauai. (Kauai Garden Island News)-A look at the work of The Sukkah Project, which sends pre-fab sukkas ...