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Unwise Thursdays

Moment Magazine has a feature each month where they ask rabbis of various movements and constituencies to respond to a ...

Call Me Kalman

Exploring the roots of a Hebrew name.

Me and the Maharal (Down by the Schoolyard)

Just got my copy of Curt Leviant’s translation of The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague, ...

Around the World With Hava Nagila

Aliza Hausman, over at Memoirs of a Jewminicana clued me in to this hilarious and awesome Indian version of Hava ...

Interview: Gerald Schroeder

Dr. Gerald Schroeder is an MIT trained physicist and an Orthodox Jew. His previous books, including Genesis and the Big ...

Free Love and Communal Shabbat Dinners

When I lived in San Francisco, I didn’t have much going on in the way of hospitality — mainly because ...

Marketing Hitler

First there was the Hitler sperm being used to market a brand of condoms.  And now, Hitler is being used ...

Will Eisner

Moving beyond superheroes to tell his people's story.

More Lubavitch Fetishism

Remember way back when I wrote about how the New York Times constantly glamorized/fetishized/stared at the world of Hasidic Brooklyn? ...

Renaissance in a Time of Ration

This article was written for the 2009 Why Be Jewish Gathering: Renaissance in a Time of Ration, a project of ...

Pride Month is Coming: Tremble and Make a Jihad

Pride Month (June) is almost upon us and preparation for big events are already underway within the Jewish community. Get ...

Hasidic Poetry Slam

OK, as promised:This past Saturday night was the first Hasidic poetry slam in Crown Heights, at least in the estimations ...