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Wise Fridays: We Are a Part of Torah
To deny people’s full humanity is to remove them from divinity, and if we lessen the divine image of anyone, ...
Jewish Rhyme Bible
Our Bad Poetry Contest is getting close to the end, with 3 potential winners out of over 100 entries so ...
News From The North, A Book Review, And An Anniversary
While withdrawl from the Golan is often dismissed as unthinkable, governments of Rabin, Peres, Netanyahu (first term), Barak, and Olmert ...
Roseanne Barr…Oy
You know that famous Seinfeld where Jerry thinks his dentist, Dr. Watley, converted to Judaism for the jokes? A priest ...
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi’s “A Heart Afire”
As one of the founders of the Jewish Renewal movement, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi has labored his whole life to make ...
From the Academy: Musicology
Judah Cohen serves as The Lou and Sybil Mervis Professor of Jewish Culture and as an Assistant Professor of Jewish ...
Tweet One Your Love
Okay, I’m not Stevie Wonder, and chances are you aren’t, either — but let’s not forget the grand Jewish tradition ...
Find Me an Online Match!
After speaking with Millionaire Matchmaker Patti Stanger, and Orthodox matchmaker Chana Rachel Frumin, I wanted to speak with someone who ...
Friday Night Music and Women as Orthodox Clergy
There has been a marked growth in the use of instrumental music for Friday night services, including a rise in ...
Many Old Jews, Just One Number
Old Jews Telling Jokes has a tried, tested, and true formula. It goes something like this: Old Jews + Jokes ...
How to Hate the Gays
Last night I was working at our local co-op market. The crowd there is pretty diverse — Hasidic Jews, Caribbean ...
Cooling Off: A Look Back
Only a few days ago I finished saying Kaddish, and today was the day my mother would have turned 56. ...
Rest of the Best. I Mean, Best of the Rest
How was everyone’s fast? Mine was yummy. Thanks for asking (Okay, I fasted. I promise).We’ve had a good week here ...
Secrets of an Orthodox Matchmaker
Chana Rachel Frumin is the director and founder of the Jerusalem Narrative Family Therapy Institute, where she is a marriage ...
Judd Apatow Reads Our Blog (Or Slate)
I mean, who can blame the guy, right? Judd Apatow, promoting his new film, Funny People (Which I’m so confused ...