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What Rhymes With Jewish?
Bluish? Newish? Shrewish? Trueish (a cousin of truthiness)?Get on your thinking caps, because we’re launching a Bad Poetry Contest to ...
NYC Prep: Semite Style
Since my intellectual prowess in all things Gossip Girl has clearly been proven on Mixed Multitudes, it’s no shocker that ...
Underworld Aristocracy
When I first became obsessed with books, at the age of 9 or so, my Russian parents proudly told me: ...
Dvar Torah: Live, Tonight, On Stage
Tonight I’m giving a dvar torah, and I’m nervous. So I set my Twitter status to say exactly that. My ...
Evangelical Tractate Bonanza, or, My Christian-Take-on-Jewish-Holidays Learning
Secret disclosure #481516: I like to collect evangelical Christian tractates.Since I’ve become a parent and gotten a regular gig — ...
The White Smoke Rises from the Chimneys at 25 Broadway…
… announcing that friend of MJL Jerry Silverman has been tapped as the new Pope, er, President and CEO of ...
Israel & the Media
Whether the BBC is pro-Israel or anti-Israel may well depend on what time period you collect the data from–and who ...
Extra! New York Times Runs Story about Jews!
What’s the key to any ultra-popular Jewish news story? Start out with a question — a popular Jewish activity, asking ...
Maccabiah Games Score a Major Coup
Michael Phelps must be too good for everybody. Why should anyone attend the World Swimming Championships just to compete for ...
ROI Roundup: Saying “Shalom” to Israel (for now)
As a satirist and a cynic, you would think that at the conclusion of ROI, I would have a laundry ...
ROI 120 Roundup: Text Study, Dylan, and Twitter
I woke up Wednesday morning with a new bounce in my step. Today was the day I was going to ...
Out of Isolation
I was thrilled to see Benjamin Greene’s thoughtful article in PresenTense Magazine (“Outside the Bubble: Integration in Education,†Issue 8, ...
10 Things I Hate about Commandments
I’m a big proponent of making the Torah relevant for modern society and everyday life. Maybe it’s my whole Orthodox ...
From the Academy: Art History
Samantha Baskind is Associate Professor of Art History at Cleveland State University. Her first book, Raphael Soyer and the Search ...
Hannah Montana Changes Her Name To Chani Golani
Move over Rechov SumSum. Get out of the way Barney. Your time is up.Big news for people living in Israel ...