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Wise Fridays: Judith’s Prayer
“Look upon their pride; send Your anger upon their heads, give into my widow’s hand the strength that I plot. ...
Hanukkah Snuggies, Oy!
There’s not much we as Jews can really unite under. We tend to agree that the Holocaust was bad (and ...
If MJL Produced a Rock-Opera Short…
I was too young to ever see this commercial on TV, so I just discovered it via YouTube now. First ...
What My Thanksgiving Dinner Will Be Like*
On the plane this morning I ended up being seated next to a guy who is in rabbinical school, and ...
What Is A Gabbai?
Gabbai (pl. gabbaim) is an Aramaic word that means tax collector, but today a gabbai is someone who assists with the reading of the Torah.
Not a Historical Record
Earlier this week, Ruth Franklin wrote about sharing a stage with Yann Martel and discussed whether anything new can be ...
Everything We Need to Know
On Monday, Ruth Franklin wrote about sharing a stage with Yann Martel. She is the author of A Thousand Darknesses: ...
Discovering Sepharad/Al-Andalus: A Short Reading List
I guess it was the recent New York Times profile of the hateful extremist Pamela Geller that set me off ...
Holes
Ruth Franklin is the author of A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction. She will be blogging all ...
What’s So Sexy About Jews?
We can all agree that Jews are sexy. But what makes the People of the Book so hot? Is it ...