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Chinese Takeout in the New Yorker

Last week the New Yorker published a longish piece (registration required) about Orthodox rabbis who criss-cross China certifying that various ...

Holocaust in the News

A potential convert finds himself “never able to connect emotionally with the Nazi genocide as so many of my fellow ...

Faster, Faster: Asara B’Tevet

Today is the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Tevet, and as such is a minor fast day. You ...

Haftarah for Bo

Jeremiah taunts the Egyptians.

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 ...

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