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The Orthodox Jersey Shore

When Frum Satire showed me In Over Our Heads — billed as “the first unscripted Jewish reality television series” — ...

Wise Fridays: Mind Your Own Business

“Most people are concerned with their own material well-being and their neighbor’s soul. Better that they worry about their own ...

Shutting Up the Bigots

So I was planning on writing a pretty lighthearted post about this amazing website called SameSexShidduch.com. I mean, as long ...

Consider Your Audience

In her last posts, Miriam Libicki blogged on taking Egged buses across Israel and on her process of drawing comic ...

Herman Wouk: Cliff’s Notes for the Big Bang

I wrote my first novel standing in Herman Wouk’s shadow. Literally: I was in college at the George Washington University ...

Jews on Hulu

I got in a little bit of trouble the other day. We have been working closely with Brooklyn filmmaker Jason ...

Jews for Jesus–“You Can’t Say I’m Not a Jew”

I’ve been reading a book about Messianic Judaism in order to write an article for MJL, and jeesh is it ...

Egged Bus Life

In her last post, Miriam Libicki blogged on her process for creating the comic series jobnik. She will be blogging ...

The Evolution of a Page: jobnik! 8, Page 11

Miriam Libicki, an American Jewish girl from a religious home, enlists in the Israeli Army one summer against everyone’s better ...

Wise Fridays: On Suffering

Rabbi Yochanan once became ill, and Rabbi Hanina went to visit him. He asked him, “Are your sufferings welcome to ...

What Does This Mean??

My best friend sent me this parody video, Brokeback Beit Midrash. As you might expect, it’s a parody of Brokeback ...

Jerusalem

The City of Gold and capital of Israel is important to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.