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Jews: Still Rich
Are you a Reform Jew? Yes? Can I borrow $5,000? I only ask because a new study by the Pew ...
Do You “Like” My Name?
A couple in Israel recently decided to name one of their children Like, because of liking things on facebook. They ...
JDate and a Holocaust Movie
Jdate is sponsoring a new program that’s something like a Jewish Film of the Month club. You can get a ...
Best of the Week
Straight from the depths of the dark mind of Jeremy Moses, I present you with the best articles of the ...
Wise Fridays: Even Gnats and Flies
“The Rabbis said: Even though you may think them superfluous in this world, creatures such as flies, bugs, and gnats ...
Roger Waters Is A Wimp
There has been a small, but growing trend among some musicians and bands to refuse to play in Israel because ...
They Have to Be Carefully Taught
A ten-year-old boy shot his father to death two weeks ago. The father was a politically active neo-Nazi, who was ...
Memory, Scent, and My Mother
Earlier this week, Molly Birnbaum wrote about her first writing teacher and the scent of Passover. She has been blogging all week ...
Forgetting Hillary Clinton
Not sure if you’ve heard by now, but the United States killed Osama Bin Laden last week. A couple of ...
My First Writing Teacher
Molly Birnbaum is the author of Season to Taste: How I Lost my Sense of Smell and Found My Way. ...
Wise Fridays: Older and Wiser
“As regards scholars, the older they become the more wisdom they acquire…But as regards the ignorant, the older they become, ...
Best of the Week
Maybe, just maybe, the East Coast is coming out of winter. Yesterday, I had to wear a sweatshirt to work ...
Remembering Jewish Chaplains
Now I did not know this but if you were to visit Arlington National Cemetery, there are three seperate plaques ...
Celebrating Osama’s Death
“My creatures are drowning in the sea, and you want to sing?” – Babylonian Talmud Megillah 10bIt took less than ...
Instant March of the Living
Yesterday was Yom Hashoah. And while our blog had minimal coverage of the day, that doesn’t mean that people around ...