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Where Are the Jewish Food Movies?

I love food movies. Like Water for Chocolate? Hot. Eat Drink, Man Woman? Steamy. Mostly Martha? Phenomenal. Chocolat? Luscious. Big ...

Books, Books, and More Books

For one day at the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, writers, and poets take the place of journalists in covering the news ...

Maple Syrup Is In The Air

I wouldn’t call myself particularly patriotic. I think that outward patriotism is a finite object. In other words, you can ...

ROI 120 Roundup: Initial Reactions

For those of you who don’t know, I wasn’t flown to Israel to perform at a comedy club in Jerusalem. ...

ROI 120 Roundup: Learning the Media

My roommate and I slept right through the alarm and woke up just in time to realize that we had ...

Dead Sea Scrolls Signify Occupation?

I’m not much of a museum person. It’s not that I’m uncultured (I mean, I am), but I may have ...

ROI 120: Tightrope Walkers, Half-Naked Trapeze, and the Future of the Jewish Community

Heshy Fried, better known as Frum Satire, is one of 120 participants in the Schusterman Foundation’s initiative ROI 120, a ...

Everybody Dance (and Daven) Now

You know what the shema has always been missing? Blonde girls in leggings. Also a DJ. And awkward dance moves. ...

What To Do With Michael Jackson’s Kids

It was only a matter of time until a halakhic question would somehow creep into the Michael Jackson madness. In ...

A Little More on Casspi

I wanted to pass along this feature article about Omri Casspi in Ha’aretz. The difference between this piece and my ...

Talmud FAIL: Yalta vs. Ulla

Most of my favorite Talmud stories center around Yalta. She’s a Talmud-era commentator who’s sometimes thought to be Rav Nachman’s ...

Jews and the Vatican: Epilogue: The Portable Altar of Ludwig the Priest

Inbal Freund-Novick is an organizational consultant and co-founder of The Unmasked Comics Project, a social change comics venture with comics ...

Best of the Rest–Video Edition

It’s that time of the week again. This week’s links are dedicated to people who don’t have time to read. ...

Diaspora & Israel, Messianism and Families

Are there really more Muslims than Jews in the US? (Chicago Jewish News)Should Jews shun “Messianic Jews“? (Beliefnet)Soli Shahvar, Amos ...

Would You Join an All-Jewish Social Network?

How geeky and sixth-grade USY nightmare does that sound? Okay, so Facebook is collecting your private data. And it’s going ...

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