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Is Zach Braff Going to Make Aliyah?

Scrubs star Zach Braff is hanging out in Tel Aviv these days, and in an interview with Haaretz it sure ...

God Wants You To Get Laid (Or Eat Chocolate Cake)

I love this article in the New York Times about a pastor who told his congregation of some 20,000 people ...

On Racism

Last week, I blogged about the Jewish community’s (and particularly the Orthodox community’s) confrontation with residual racism (in light of ...

And the High Priest goes in for the field goal…

In the mid-’90s, Israeli television personality Gil Kopatch brought Rabbi Mordechai Gafni on his sports/talk/news show to discuss the weekly ...

A Baby By Any Other Name…

JTA is currently featuring an article about the challenge of choosing a name for a Jewish baby, so I thought ...

Texas, O Texas

An update on the evolution debate my home state of Crazyland, aka Texas. Just before the school year, the board ...

Hard Core Religion

The L.A. Times ran a piece a few days ago on Muslim punk-rock teenagers, which mostly served as an excuse ...

What Happens Then?

Last week an older man who I know from various minyanim on the Upper West Side mentioned that he was ...

Haftarah for Toldot

God's expectations for the Israelites and the priests.

Signs that Jewish trendiness is dying

Okay, I just followed a Google Ad which led to a website advertising this book — a 636-page edition, limited ...

Rabban Gamliel, Mormons, and People Who Aren’t There

Last night I went to the Mechon Hadar beit midrash  for a session on prayer leaders, and what qualities a ...

Parashat Toldot Quiz

My Jewish Learning:Toldot: Pardes 5769