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Today’s Jewish philanthropic news centers around those who give $5 million or more. In recent years many organizations have focused ...

Of course, Jews hold no monopoly on inter-denominational strife, but it was still eye-opening to read my friend Benjy Balint’s ...

One problem with writing, as opposed to speech, is that one can’t use voice inflections. This creates a particular issue ...

In one of his hit songs, California Love, the late Tupac rapped, “It’s all good, from Diego to the Bay,” ...

If there’s one thing the Jewish community is all-too often missing, it’s self-criticism. Groups and movements tend to blame other ...

Rabbi Sherwin Wine, who founded the Secular Humanistic Judaism movement, died in a car crash this weekend. He was 79. ...

Before there were Halliburton and Exxon-Mobil, there was United Fruit.I’ve been spending a lot of my spare time over the ...

The other day I blogged about my gut discomfort with the class-action lawsuit brought by children of Holocaust survivors, asking ...

A look at the extensive splits within the religious establishment in Israel, and their increasing inability to deal with challenges ...

Last week, NPR’s “Heard on the Street” featured a “debate” between Jew for Jesus Larry Dubin and Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld ...

I don’t want to judge people who have been traumatized by Holocaust-survivor parents, but I’m not sure I can help ...