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The Best Learning You’ll Do Offline–Yeshivat Hadar
During the summer of 2007 I was a fellow at the first summer of Yeshivat Hadar, an intensive 8-week egalitarian ...
Hasidic Boy Dies
I just wanted to update everyone on the situation of Motl Brody, the 12 year old boy who was on ...
Just Like The Sopranos, But With Thicker Chest Hair
A known Israeli mobster, Yaakov Alperon, was assassinated on Monday in Tel Aviv. Alperon’s car blew up, killing him and ...
Making High Art out of Speedos
The following preview has me so, so confused. Take Flight is a full-length documentary film about Gary Oldman’s directoral debut. ...
National Adoption Day
Today is National Adoption Day, which you may have guessed by the title of this blog post and also by ...
Sderot in the News
Yesterday evening, I had one of those rare moments when I found myself watching the evening news (Truth be told, ...
New Jewish Foodie Blog
Ruti Abusch-Magder, a scholar-in-residence at the University of Chicago Hillel is doing outreach based around food and gender (sometimes together, ...
Obama Introspection
In the wake of Barack Obama’s victory, there’s been quite a bit of laudable introspection on behalf of the Jewish ...
I guess I’m busy dyin’
Having been going to Jewish summer camp since I was nine, I have always been taught that Bob Dylan is ...
The Bernstein Effect
Now that we will have our first African-American president, it’s time to start speculating about the next ethnic/gender/religious barrier to ...
Mikvehs of the World
Let it not be said that the Jews of the world have neglected the Internet as a way of spreading ...
Poll: Great Article Titles
Hey kids, it’s that time of week again, where you get to exercise your democratic right to give your opinion ...
The Case of the Disappearing Church
Last year there was a sad story of a synagogue in Tajikistan that had to be destroyed because the government ...
The Rav Raps on Rahm
This is a how-to guide. Fame is an arbitrary thing, where the spokesperson for a certain person or issue is ...
Taylor Swift’s Biblical Success
I am unabashedly overjoyed about Fearless, the new Taylor Swift album. It is freakishly good. And I’m not the only ...