Jewish History
From the Academy: Benjamin Sommer
In this installment of “From the Academy,� Dr. Benjamin Sommer, Professor of Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary, tells us ...
Gay Marriage: Jews vs Mormons
An email from the usually-hilarious San Francisco-based comic Heather Gold (who, by the way, you can see live on Margaret ...
Happy 1940
MJL’s latest biography tells the story of Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the father of Modern Hebrew. So determined to bring Hebrew ...
Hasidic Targeted Advertising
In New York, the Metropolitan Transit Authority is testing digital ads on the sides of buses — and the ever-vigilant ...
Astrology in Medieval Judaism
In the Middle Ages, Ibn Ezra, Maimonides, and others debated the legitimacy of astrology.
Anne Frank in Cambodia
Reincarnators aren’t the only people interested in Anne Frank. The Diary of Anne Frank was recently translated in the Khmer, ...
Magic Bowls
Ancient artifacts reveal Jewish attitudes toward incantations, demons, and the supernatural.
Rebbe Nachman Is Alive and Well and Living Inside Us
Today is the yahrzeit of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov — who, on our site, earns the epigraph The Man who ...
The Bailout: a modest proposal
In the aftermath of the third debate, our friend Sarah Lefton, the person behind all those Jews for Jeter t-shirts, ...
Jewish Magic & the Blood Libels
Suspicion of Jewish magic was behind the medieval accusation of child murder.
Jewish Magic & Medieval Anti-Semitism
In medieval Europe, Jews suffered on account of popular beliefs about Jewish sorcery--and yet their non-Jewish neighbors also tried to benefit from Jewish magic.
Food porn.
Earlier today, Tamar called out the Hasidic community in Williamsburg for, well, defacing advertisements for restaurants that are seen as ...