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What Should Israel Do?

-The head of the national Religious party Benny Elon has proposed his solution: Israel would take sovereignty over the entire ...

Does God Read?

Maybe God really isn’t great. If He were so great, wouldn’t He have made sure Christopher Hitchens wasn’t nominated for ...

Lay Kodesh

Yesterday I blogged about JOI’s Big Tent Judaism initiative. As I got to thinking more about problem of being welcoming ...

Jews in Far-Flung Places

-Myanmar’s 20 remaining Jews fear for their small community. (Ynet)-The Jewish life in Taiwan, one dominated by Syrian Jews, is ...

Refusing to Play

Iranian-born German soccer player Ashkan Dejagah is making headlines for electing to skip his team’s upcoming match in Tel Aviv. ...

Big Tent Judaism

This week, Rabbi Kerry Olitzky of the Jewish Outreach Institute, along with Rabbi Elliot Dorf of the American Jewish University, ...

Jewish Science 101

To what extent do Judaism and science collide?

I’d like to buy a vowel

This past weekend, Jews began, once again, to read the Torah cycle. As most people know, the Torah scroll itself ...

Action Figures

Guest blogger Rabbi Jennifer Krause is the author of The Answer: Making Sense of Life, One Question at a Time.With ...

A Map Quest

Prior to the High Holidays, the New York Board of Rabbis previewed its official Jewish New York History and Heritage ...

Israeli Zeitgeist

-The 2007 “Corruption Perceptions Index” shows a modest improvement for Israel over 2006. (Haaretz) -The latest survey of Israeli attitudes ...

Contemporary Ketubot

MJL contributing writer Jessica Kraft has just launched a website featuring the contemporary ketubot that she designs for soon-to-be married ...