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Taqwacore wisdom

All weekend I’ve continued my obsession with Michael Muhammad Knight’s book The Taqwacores, which follows a bunch of young Muslim ...

Kaddish: It’s Different for a Girl

I haven’t written much about actually saying Kaddish in the past few months, partially because it has become so much ...

Depression and Prayer

A few years ago, right about the time I was becoming religious, I started getting hit with Seasonal Affective Disorder. ...

Self-Interest and Solidarity

There are many motivators for fighting injustice.

Matisyahu: Return of the “King”

Although I can’t actually remember whether he played “King Without a Crown,” that iconoclastic first single that a friend swore ...

Haftarah for Shemot

Promises of hope, threats of destruction.

Israeli Government Twitters the War

It’s mostly PR, but it’s a kind of PR that the Israeli government hasn’t historically shown the capability to produce ...

The Holocaust, the First War in Lebanon, and Gaza Today

Last night a friend and I went to go see Waltz With Bashir, the animated Israeli film about memories of ...

Do Apples Even Grow in Germany?

Herman Rosenblatt has become famous for his amazing story of how he met his wife. He claimed that while he ...

Haftarah for Vayechi

David's parting words to his son Solomon.

The Conspiracy of Covering Up

Because it’s impossible to write enough stories on Hasidic Jews and sexuality, Nextbook has an article on dressing modestly in ...

Back to the Ghetto, Yemen-style

The son of the head of Yemenite Jewish community (that is, the Jewish community still in Yemen) was shot and ...