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And the High Priest goes in for the field goal…
In the mid-’90s, Israeli television personality Gil Kopatch brought Rabbi Mordechai Gafni on his sports/talk/news show to discuss the weekly ...
A Baby By Any Other Name…
JTA is currently featuring an article about the challenge of choosing a name for a Jewish baby, so I thought ...
Texas, O Texas
An update on the evolution debate my home state of Crazyland, aka Texas. Just before the school year, the board ...
Hard Core Religion
The L.A. Times ran a piece a few days ago on Muslim punk-rock teenagers, which mostly served as an excuse ...
What Happens Then?
Last week an older man who I know from various minyanim on the Upper West Side mentioned that he was ...
Signs that Jewish trendiness is dying
Okay, I just followed a Google Ad which led to a website advertising this book — a 636-page edition, limited ...
Rabban Gamliel, Mormons, and People Who Aren’t There
Last night I went to the Mechon Hadar beit midrash for a session on prayer leaders, and what qualities a ...
Jews and Proposition 8
Controversy time! Have an opinion on California’s Proposition 8 banning gay marriage? You are not the only one. Check out ...
The Best Learning You’ll Do Offline–Yeshivat Hadar
During the summer of 2007 I was a fellow at the first summer of Yeshivat Hadar, an intensive 8-week egalitarian ...
Hasidic Boy Dies
I just wanted to update everyone on the situation of Motl Brody, the 12 year old boy who was on ...