Mixed Multitudes

Looks like American Jews aren’t the only ones who spend the aftermath of an election counting how many Jews were ...

Is Michael Richards Jewish? That’s the question that was on too-many Jews’ minds after Seinfeld‘s Kramer went on his recent ...

Good book criticism has been virtually exiled from the popular press, and the New York Times Book Review — which ...

This morning, I blogged about the poetry of Taha Muhammad Ali and his translator, Peter Cole. In July, I wrote ...

Thanks to Jewschool for highlighting this amazing video of poet Taha Muhammad Ali at the Dodge Poetry Festival earlier this ...

The Jerusalem Post reports:Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Waldenberg, one of the most respected halachic authorities of the modern era and a ...

It’s Thanksgiving reading time. And for us at MJL, that’s got to start with David Koffman’s fascinating article about the ...

Our homepage this week features an article about the Karaites, a sect of Judaism that rejected the authority of the ...

Jewish bloggers have written their first reviews of the recently launched Jewcy.com and they’re not being generous.– Ariel over at ...

Today is author Don DeLillo’s 70th birthday. Sure, he’s not Jewish and — as far as I can remember — ...

In anticipation of Leo Baeck’s 50th yahrzeit on Sunday, I’d like to highlight a few other aspects of his thought. ...

The Letters section has always been my favorite part of Jewish newspapers, and the Jewish Week isn’t letting me down. ...