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Jewish camp is everywhere, Terry Gross confirmed on NPR the other day. While interviewing filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, she ...

For another perspective on this debate, read Rabbi Rebecca Sirbu’s post here.Aside from the bigamy laws, I mean. (JK)Recently, a rabbi ...

I once heard Sarah Silverman tell a joke about the pride Jews inevitably take in the accomplishments of other Jews. To paraphrase, ...

I recently solved a history mystery, and it started with a tiny pencil.I was looking through a box of old ...

I am a person who puts on, or “lays,” tefillin (phylacteries). I happen to be female. While my gender, to ...

Bridgegate.The story broke two weeks ago, and updates are still front-page news.Allegedly, New Jersey Governor Christie’s leadership team closed lanes ...

In 1990, I worked with Afghan refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan, then the site of the largest refugee population in the ...

It’s true: I grew up in a town so far South, it’s North.With residents mostly emigrating from colder climates, my ...

If Israel boycotted the Winter Olympic in Sochi, Russia next month would anyone really care? The games would go on ...

I don’t speak Hebrew and, despite a few semi-earnest attempts to learn my aleph-bet, I don’t read it either. I recognize enough ...

Once a month at our family Shabbat service we ask families to submit questions in advance in what, in lieu ...

Israeli Maor Sanbata came to the United States this past summer to be a counselor at Camp Be’chol Lashon. Born ...