Mixed Multitudes
Letters to Klinghoffer
I shared my thoughts (I, II) on David Klinghoffer’s critique of Limmud NY (and “liberal pluralism, generally), now the Forward‘s ...
Up With Trees! Down with Jewish Rap!
There’s a Tu Bishvat video from the Jewish National Fund that seems to be circulating quickly around the Jewish web. ...
Modern Jewish Mom
I received a copy of Meredith Jacobs’ The Modern Jewish Mom’s Guide to Shabbat today. I haven’t looked through the ...
The Boy Who Fell
As the aspiring fiction writers among us know, novels (and certainly short stories) do not sell as well as non-fiction. ...
Progressive Zionists
By now, many of you will have read or read about Alvin Rosenfeld’s article “Progressive Jewish Thought and the New ...
Holocaust Memorial…Turned Urinal
Last week on MJL, Brigitte Sion offered her analysis of four national Holocaust memorials, and in so doing, noted that ...
Introducing MJL’s Monthly Recipes E-letter
As Daniel mentioned in this post a couple of weeks ago, renowned chef Adeena Sussman has launched a kosher food column on ...
New Blog
Menachem Wecker has launched a new blog — Iconia — which will focus on the intersection of art and religion. ...
Burn the Lycra!
On Thursday night, Ultra-Orthodox activists in Jerusalem burned barrels of “immodest” clothing, claiming that female immodesty is the only thing ...
Debating Social Justice, Pt. II
Steven over at Canonist has written a thoughtful reply to yesterday’s posting about his debate with Dan Sieradski. I had ...
Did Moses Exist?
Apparently the new edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica takes a skeptical position on this question. Find out more here.
Debating Social Justice
Generally, it’s not fun to see your friends fight, but when the fight is over the soul of Judaism, it’s ...