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Someone didn’t get that The Producers was a comedy

Here is the list of events that you are not allowed to make light of:1) The Holocaust2) Rwandan Genocide3) The ...

Messiah & Ignorance

I recently received a bizarre email that went a little like this: “The following are reasons for why the Mashiach ...

Church of Science Open for Business Online and in Berkeley

If faith always appealed to you, but you’re a rationally minded-scientist who can’t get past that big leap, there’s a ...

Haftarah for Vayera

The prophet Elisha performs two miracles.

Israeli Film,Theatre, & Politics

The playwright Gilad Evron criticizes establishment theater in Israel, and other matters. (Haaretz)Some Israeli actresses, most notably Ayelet Zurer, are ...

Election Roundup

Just in: According to ABC News and Fox News, Rahm Emanuel has been offered the position of President Obama’s Chief ...

Is Good Food Excessively Indulgent?

(Cross-posted at The Jew and the Carrot) I wrote about this once before, but wanted to return to the topic ...

Is Gen-WE Jewish?

Check out this excellent video, meant to complement a new book called Generation WE by Eric Greenberg and Karl Weber.  ...

Only in America

Guest blogger Simcha Weinstein is the rabbi of the Pratt Institute. His latest book, Shtick Shift: Jewish Humor in the ...

The Chabad Emissaries of Cool

In areas like Williamsburg, Brooklyn, hipsters and Hasidim have existed in their own separate worlds, isolated except for rare events ...

Defending Babel

This past Shabbat, I heard a friend of mine speak at the Jewish Theological Seminary. The general argument in his ...

Gawking vs. Learning

I’ve been watching a lot of TLC lately, and it seems like the angle of that network is essentially, ‘Watch ...