Mixed Multitudes
Wise Fridays: Fear of God
Fear only two: God, and him who fears not God. –Yiddish preacher Judah Leib Lazerov Find more Wise Fridays wisdom ...
How To Get Your Girlfriend To Break Up With You
Wanna be alone over the holidays? Well do I have the product for you! Have you ever looked at a ...
Halakhah Think Tank
There are people who will argue with me, but I’ve always thought of halakhah as dynamic. It changes based on ...
An Israeli Thanksgiving Feast
So what if Thanksgiving was almost a week ago? Whenever I can get the chance to think about the amazing ...
What Do You Call Pitom in French?
Our favorite Jewish-jazz-heavy-metal-freak band Pitom — fronted by Yoshie Fruchter (who we’ve featured on MJL) and named after a part ...
Montreal vs New York
The argument has occurred time and time again. You might even think I’m annoying for bringing it up. But don’t ...
Smoking Hot Semitic Tush
Jewesses are so hot right now. No, really. According to Details magazine, “Jewesses aren’t just the rage in the triple-X ...
“Moses Was Jazzy!”
I think that Forward cartoonist Eli Valley‘s latest comic, a homage to (or take-off from) Kafka’s Metamorphosis, will probably catch ...
Spiritual Karate
Somewhere between a field guide, an instruction manual, and a well-meaning memoir, Rabbi Niles Elliot Goldstein’s new book The Challenge ...
Don’t Tease Me, Bro
I’m just going to say it. It’s wrong that there are so many Jewish restaurants out there that aren’t kosher. ...
How the IDF Makes Jelly Doughnuts
I don’t know why I’m so into Hanukkah food demonstration videos today. Actually, maybe I do. Probably because I’m really ...
The New Settlement Freeze
Amos Harel points out that “in practice … there will be nearly no change in settlement construction, at least not ...