Mixed Multitudes
Eat the Cheesecake the Obamas Eat
There’s a cool article in the NYTimes today about the pastry chef in the White House. He sounds like an ...
Post-Apocalyptic Tel Aviv
What’s with all the Israel-centric science fiction stories these days? I’m not even talking about Assaf Gavron’s magical-realist novel about ...
The Jewish Canadien
Here is a shocker. It has been months since I’ve mentioned my main man Omri Casspi on this blog. As ...
From Another Planet
My new short story “Hailing Frequency” was just published (and you can hear or read the whole thing online). It’s ...
How Many Jewish Languages Can You Name?
Here on MJL we cover the basics—Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Aramaic–but there are others. This week I learned about Juhuri, the ...
Elena Kagan, Esther, and Being Outed as Jewish or Gay
So Elena Kagan is Obama’s nominee for Supreme Court Jusice, and I, for one, am elated. I love that there ...
Best of the Week
A lot of excitement this week. Especially on television. Anyone see Lost this week? Here is my 50 word reaction ...
Guess Who’s On JDate?
A bunch of really adorable non-Jews, including Chase Crawford of Gossip Girl fame. According to Bollywood News: Speaking to Now magazine, the Gossip ...
The Ke$ha Bat Mitzvah Party
Have you ever watched one of those “Remembering the 80s” shows on VH1 where they look back at some of ...
Wise Fridays: Despite the Faults
Just as we love ourselves despite the faults we know we have, so should we love our neighbors despite the ...
Longing
So far this week, Dani Shapiro wrote about moving from Jewish N.Y. to churchy Connecticut and how to find Jews ...
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MyJewishLearning.com, the leading transdenominational Jewish website, is now seeking an assistant editor to work for our exciting new site for ...