Beliefs & Practices
Best of the Rest
It’s that time of the week again. I tell you what you missed on MJL and you expand your mind. ...
Learning From Sotah
This week’s Torah portion discusses the sotah, a woman suspected of adultery, who’s is forced to drink “bitter water” to ...
Wise Fridays: Thinking & Judging
“In analyzing or evaluating an object, we think and judge from a particular point of view. The psychologist, economist, and ...
Jonathan Safran Foer Eats Food.
A marvelous, funny, and just pleasant-to-read interview with Jonathan Safran Foer has just appeared on The Young and Hungry, serving ...
Your Cousin Moishe’s Take on Your Intermarriage
Today Jewcy features a scary letter that a guy named Noah (Noah Feldman, is that you?) got after getting engaged ...
A Vast Conspiracy
A couple weeks back, I jokingly shared a link to a site teaching you how to properly fight off a ...
Unwise Thursdays
Moment Magazine has a feature each month where they ask rabbis of various movements and constituencies to respond to a ...
Me and the Maharal (Down by the Schoolyard)
Just got my copy of Curt Leviant’s translation of The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague, ...
Interview: Gerald Schroeder
Dr. Gerald Schroeder is an MIT trained physicist and an Orthodox Jew. His previous books, including Genesis and the Big ...
More Lubavitch Fetishism
Remember way back when I wrote about how the New York Times constantly glamorized/fetishized/stared at the world of Hasidic Brooklyn? ...
Pride Month is Coming: Tremble and Make a Jihad
Pride Month (June) is almost upon us and preparation for big events are already underway within the Jewish community. Get ...
Hasids and the Amish: Match Made in Heaven
Somehow I missed this a few weeks ago when it was fresh news, but apparently there was a group of ...