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We Remember

When one speaks about Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, almost always the first thing mentioned is the the two-minute siren ...

The Cabalist’s Daughter

The Cabalist’s Daughter is a bipolar sort of book. On one hand, it’s a crazy, unhinged vision of the Chabad-Lubavitch ...

Who’s Your Mommy?

About six months ago I went out to coffee with some friends who, after about an hour of chitchat, gently ...

Fine, We’ll Return the Pound of Flesh.

There are a lot of news stories about anti-Semitism. I just searched the term on Google News, and five pages ...

Nice Jewish Girls Get Hit

This weeks marks the anniversary of an event I don’t really like to talk about. At some point in college ...

After Death, Holy

We always have the opportunity to rise above our human flaws.

Portnoy’s Complaint

A novel by Philip Roth.

Himmel Signaln

A Hasidic Take on 9/11

Careful, Or I’ll Slap You With A Moist Piece of Liver

Sometime during all of the Agriprocessors brouhaha I heard that there had been a kosher meat boycott in 1902. I ...

Poll: Durban II

While Mixed Multitudes hasn’t talked much about it, there has been a lot of media coverage concerning this week’s UN ...

How Jews Eat

Just in time for a return to the b-word — you know, the one that some people won’t even say ...

Haftarah for Kedoshim

On chosenness and holiness.