Partner Blogs
It Bears Repeating
Remembering fallen soldiers is a weird thing. Personally, I find it difficult to really feel pain and sorrow for people ...
Jew on the Train
Judaism is one of those cultural identities that, for most people, is able to be turned on or off. Matt ...
We Remember
When one speaks about Yom Hazikaron, Israel’s Memorial Day, almost always the first thing mentioned is the the two-minute siren ...
The Cabalist’s Daughter
The Cabalist’s Daughter is a bipolar sort of book. On one hand, it’s a crazy, unhinged vision of the Chabad-Lubavitch ...
Who’s Your Mommy?
About six months ago I went out to coffee with some friends who, after about an hour of chitchat, gently ...
Fine, We’ll Return the Pound of Flesh.
There are a lot of news stories about anti-Semitism. I just searched the term on Google News, and five pages ...
Nice Jewish Girls Get Hit
This weeks marks the anniversary of an event I don’t really like to talk about. At some point in college ...
This Week in “Are They Jewish?”
Last week, I got an e-mail from my mom. It was only one line and it read, “Do you know ...
Careful, Or I’ll Slap You With A Moist Piece of Liver
Sometime during all of the Agriprocessors brouhaha I heard that there had been a kosher meat boycott in 1902. I ...
Poll: Durban II
While Mixed Multitudes hasn’t talked much about it, there has been a lot of media coverage concerning this week’s UN ...
Wise Fridays: The Most Difficult Commandment
Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai taught: The Holy One has [only] revealed the reward for obeying two commandments in the Torah: ...
How Jews Eat
Just in time for a return to the b-word — you know, the one that some people won’t even say ...
From The Academy: Paul Lerner
This installment of From the Academy, comes from University of Southern California Associate Professor of History Paul Lerner. The piece ...
The Koren Sacks Siddur: Jewish Prayerbook 2.0
In a few weeks, a new siddur is hitting the market with a translation and commentary by Rabbi Dr. Jonathan ...
Words Cannot Explain My Excitement
Go visit your local college campus. Walk into the Hillel House and take a look at the different clubs that ...