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She’s So Frum She Davens In Her Sleep

This past weekend both of my sisters came into town and we had a little Vixen Shabbaton (get it? Foxes…vixens…?). ...

Inter-racial Intermarriage: What’s Taboo and What’s Not

There’s a fascinating back-and-forth over at The Atlantic between Jeffrey Goldberg and Ta-Nehisi about exoticism and intermarriage in the black ...

A Peace Deal Brokered: Talkin’ Basketball with Bethlehem Shoals

Two of my last posts have featured my views on Jews, specifically Jordan Farmar, and their relationship with professional basketball. ...

I’m Dreaming of a White (and Blue) Hanukkah

I’m all about Christmas songs. They are cheery, joyful, sometimes in latin…it doesn’t get better than that. Sadly, I only ...

Lights! Celebrate Hanukkah Live in Concert

Our friends at Craig n’ Co. have let us know about a Hanukkah music special that PBS is broadcasting this ...

Poll: Dreidel Rules

Hanukkah is like, well, basically now. If you didn’t get your kids presents yet, stop reading. They want Ipods. Like ...

Note to Self: Do Not Name Child ‘Shanda’

There was a really cute baby in the MJL office today, and it got us talking about baby names and ...

More on Jews and Basketball

Last week, my brother called me up shocked to read that in the first NBA game on November 1, 1946, ...

Torah for Transsexuals

A new site, TransTorah, was just launched, offering resources for trans and transitioning Jews along with divrei Torah, and resources ...

Is God a Person?

From today’s emailbox:When you think of G_d, do you think of an “entity” (I know it’s not the right word, ...

Dear God, Love Bob

Check out this fascinating article in The Guardian about all of the letters that people send to God, often addressed ...

A Letter Which Is Not Read

I’ve been dreaming about my mother a lot recently. A while back I wrote about how I’m not one of ...

Jordan Farmar and the Jews

I hate defending the Lakers (especially because they have no idea how to play it. Zing!). I would like to ...

“Get off the Internet, it’s Shabbat!”

Last Friday night, my sister was at a friend’s house for dinner. They had a filling Shabbat meal, sat around ...

Jewish Surfers of the Internets vs Jewish Surfers of the Waves

I was really confused when I first saw the headline of this article from Ynet news: Haredi surfers interfering in ...

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