Mixed Multitudes
Shmuley on Oprah
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach was the featured guest on Oprah yesterday, and I figured I would take one for the team ...
Pitchfork to Matisyahu
Pitchfork has weighed in on the new Matisyahu EP, No Place to Be, and it’s not pretty. The big problem ...
Job Opportunity at MJL: Senior Editor
You read us, why not work for us?We’re looking for a full-time Senior Editor to help Daniel and the rest ...
Philanthropy Studies
A new development in Jewish academia: Hebrew University’s Rothberg International School is starting an MA program in Philanthropy Studies. This ...
Operation Screwball
Apparently, there’s a new grassroots movement to protest the ultra-Orthodox, anti-Zionist, Iran-friendly Neturei Karta. Its code name: Operation Screwball. (The ...
Renewal Rabbis
This just in from JTA: Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, founder and leader of Jewish Renewal, ordained two rabbis, two rabbinic pastors ...
Free Will Today
The New York Times last week had an interesting article on free will and the current scientific debate about whether ...
Making It
In my latest column for the Jerusalem Post, I re-examine Norman Podhoretz’s Making It, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary ...
Gershon Shaked z”l
I don’t mean to start the post-holiday period with death notices, but the great Israeli literary critic Gershon Shaked died ...
There is No More Fiction
I emailed Alice Mattison (author of the wonderful story collection In Case We’re Separated) and asked her to share some ...
Tillie Olsen z”l
A couple of weeks ago, I hosted an event at the 92nd Street Y with the writer Alice Mattison. When ...
Yeshiva Education & Intermarriage
At some point I got signed up for a “Daily Halacha” email by a Rabbi Eli Mansour. Usually, I’m most ...