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Good Fire, Bad Fire, Hanukkah Fire
It’s the fifth day of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights. But at a time when we try to fight darkness ...
The Pit of Tel Aviv, A Preliminary Damage Report
Avi Steinberg’s first book, Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian, is now available. He will be ...
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: ...