Beliefs & Practices

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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 ...

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