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The Man Who Forbade Sadness

Kabbalistic tales of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov.

How about Gmar Chatima Tova?

Every year the President sends greetings to the Jewish people for Rosh Hashanah. President Bush has been careful to not ...

Five Years of Trembling

To commemorate the five-year anniversary of Trembling on the Road, director Sandi Dubowski has launched a campaign to celebrate and ...

Teshuva (from a Christian reader)

Since I can empathize with the desire to do theological housecleaning, I thought I’d post this email we just got ...

Lamentations 9/11

I thought it would be a bit odd to have an entire day of posts without mentioning 9/11. On Faith, ...

Wanted: Muslim-Jewish Dialogue

Rabbi Eric Yoffie’s speech at the Islamic Society of North America conference has been flagged by other Jewish leaders as ...

Jewish Triumphalism, Jewish Essentialism

I’ve often expressed my belief that Jewish triumphalism (be it biblical or theological) is dangerous because it will likely lead ...

Fish Heads, Kosher Honey & Teshuvah

-In “Facing the Music� Rabbi Shefa Gold gives a meditation on “Tefilah …Teshuvah … Tzedakah.� (The Shalom Center)-Here’s where that ...

From Robben Island to Yad Vashem

I spent part of the summer in South Africa spending time in the black townships outside Cape Town with an ...

Where do non-profits go when they die?

Jewish organizations rarely disband or die. Many that have outlived their original, and even subsequent, missions frequently hang around, eating ...

Censorship in Israel

Earlier this week, MJL launched a new subject area: Theatre & Dance — a collection of articles about Jewish performance ...

The World of Jewish Education

-Can Jewish law be “temporarily set aside for the sake of a teaching moment�? (The Jerusalem Post)-Will Jewish charter schools ...