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Around the World With Hava Nagila
Aliza Hausman, over at Memoirs of a Jewminicana clued me in to this hilarious and awesome Indian version of Hava ...
Interview: Gerald Schroeder
Dr. Gerald Schroeder is an MIT trained physicist and an Orthodox Jew. His previous books, including Genesis and the Big ...
Free Love and Communal Shabbat Dinners
When I lived in San Francisco, I didn’t have much going on in the way of hospitality — mainly because ...
Marketing Hitler
First there was the Hitler sperm being used to market a brand of condoms. And now, Hitler is being used ...
More Lubavitch Fetishism
Remember way back when I wrote about how the New York Times constantly glamorized/fetishized/stared at the world of Hasidic Brooklyn? ...
Renaissance in a Time of Ration
This article was written for the 2009 Why Be Jewish Gathering: Renaissance in a Time of Ration, a project of ...
Pride Month is Coming: Tremble and Make a Jihad
Pride Month (June) is almost upon us and preparation for big events are already underway within the Jewish community. Get ...
Hasidic Poetry Slam
OK, as promised:This past Saturday night was the first Hasidic poetry slam in Crown Heights, at least in the estimations ...
Yom Yerushalayim: Break Out the Kugel.
Tomorrow is Yom Yerushalayim, or Jerusalem Day. This year I didn’t do much for Yom Haatzmaut, but I can’t let ...
Hasids and the Amish: Match Made in Heaven
Somehow I missed this a few weeks ago when it was fresh news, but apparently there was a group of ...