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Edgar Bronfman Discusses Intermarriage.
Edgar Bronfman, President of the Samuel Bronfman Foundation, and author of Hope, Not Fear: A Path to Jewish Renaissance, is ...
Punk Rock Parashah
While Googling for Torah texts, the last thing you expect to pop up is the kinetic face of your new ...
Sarah Silverman Has Ruined the World
Damn you Big Schlep. Damn you.Because one Jew made one funny joke in a viral video, now every Jewish organization ...
Shalach Manot Stories
Someone driving through our part of Brooklyn honked at Itta and I, waving us over from the sidewalk. “What’s going ...
Who You Callin’ Amalek?
If you were paying attention at Megillah reading on Monday night and Tuesday you probably noticed that the megillah is ...
Everything You Wanted To Know About Mezuzahs (But Were Afraid To Ask)
Almost two years ago, silkscreen artist David Arfa sent out the call for submissions for MezuzaZine, which is exactly what ...
No Porn on Shabbos!
I don’t like porn. I definitely don’t like porn on Shabbat. It’s not a double mitzvah if you’re doing it ...
Cheap “Breaking Out” Necklace For Sale!
Look at this photo:Now, besides this necklace being available for the very cheap price of $11.95, it also makes very ...
The Good Book? Well, It’s Okay…
One interesting note about the publicity surrounding The Good Book, Slate editor David Plotz’s chronicle of reading the Bible: it’s ...
Dead Sea Scrolls Mystery Solved. Well, Not that Mystery.
While scholars still can’t agree on “Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?,” it appears the case of “Who Was Impersonating ...
Wise Fridays: After My Death
Raba said to Rav Papa and to Rav Huna the son of Rav Joshua: When a legal decision of mine ...
An Introduction to Wise Fridays
Hi! I’m Deah. Yes, my name does happen to be the same as the Hebrew word for “knowledge” — thank ...
You Sure Showed Me Dothan. You Sure Showed Me.
This goes back to my 1st ever post here at Mixed Multitudes back on September 9th. Remember that town, Dothan, ...
Unmasking Agunot
Among the religious community, there’s a huge problem of agunot — that is, women who want a divorce from their ...
Alan Kaufman Interview: The Radical Subversion of Zionist Art
Alan Kaufman has gone through a lot of cocoons. A beat poet who went big with his hugely-successful anthology The ...