Mixed Multitudes

The AJS Conference 101 — a primer:Not many people come to these conferences, so I thought, before I got into ...

This year’s Association for Jewish Studies conference is being held in San Diego and begins on Sunday, running through Tuesday. ...

Hanukkah begins tonight, and as always, MJL is here to help you prepare. Learn about the holiday’s history, its theology ...

Rich Cohen’s Sweet and Low has garnered one of the quirkier end-of-season literary honors: Bookslut has named it one of ...

I just started reading Jimmy Carter’s new book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, which has been garnering serious criticism in the ...

Thanks to Canonist for calling attention to the Orthodox institutions that responded to last week’s decision by (some in) the ...

Mobius over at Jewschool has posted a long and thoughtful response to the “Next Big Jewish Idea” question. Rather than ...

A few times a year, we at MJL ask our audience to donate to help us keep going and growing ...

The last couple of days we’ve been lamenting the unfortunate state of the “Jewish Idea” — original thoughts, concepts, visions, ...

Our friend Rabbi Eliyahu Stern over at Beliefnet’s “Virtual Talmud” has weighed in on the odd — if not ridiculous ...

The New York Times Book Review this weekend featured an essay by novelist Cynthia Ozick about her intellectual adventure from ...

In this week’s Jewish Week, editor Gary Rosenblatt begins his search for, what he calls, “The Next Big Jewish Idea.” ...