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Best of the Rest
It’s that time of the week again. I tell you what you missed on MJL and you expand your mind. ...
Learning From Sotah
This week’s Torah portion discusses the sotah, a woman suspected of adultery, who’s is forced to drink “bitter water” to ...
Interview with DeScribe: “Makin’ It” with Y-Love
A few years ago, I was asked (by another publication) to track down this Hasidic rapper who seemed to come ...
Wise Fridays: Thinking & Judging
“In analyzing or evaluating an object, we think and judge from a particular point of view. The psychologist, economist, and ...
Uhhhh Wrong Choice of Words?
Everyone, by now, must have heard about the scary terror plot at two synagogues in the Bronx. Luckily, the FBI ...
Jonathan Safran Foer Eats Food.
A marvelous, funny, and just pleasant-to-read interview with Jonathan Safran Foer has just appeared on The Young and Hungry, serving ...
Chaim Potok
His Judaism, and his dissatisfaction with it, formed the cornerstone of his stories.
All Hitler All the Time
I have a confession to make: I kind of like Holocaust movies. I wouldn’t go so far as to have ...
From the Academy: Sephardic Studies
The flourishing of Jewish Studies in American universities has been one of the crucial stories in Jewish culture since World ...
Sabra Returns to Marvel Comics
If you don’t know about my obsession with Sabra, the Jewish superhero, then just Google around — I’m kind of ...
Classical Music in the West Bank
You know those movies, books, and news stories about how classical music turned the life of some hard-knock kids around, ...
Israel: Settlements, Conflict, and Iran
Netanyahu says Israel will not stop construction in Jerusalem or halt building to accommodate “natural growth†in the settlements. He ...