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This Jew will kick your butt.

Word association time. Name the first five words that come to your head when you hear the word “Jew.”Mine: dorky, ...

How Much Should We Talk About Sex?

I’ve been thinking a lot about sex recently, which is not, like, a new thing for me, but I’ve been ...

Obama & Israel

Kadima’s Tzipi Livni, Likud’s Binyamin Netanyahu and Labor’s Ehud Barak all want to sound like Obama (Jerusalem Post).Ari Shavit sees ...

Rahm Says

No: Rahm Emanuel is not strictly observant — at least, not in the Joe Lieberman sense of the word. But ...

Good and Welfare

Up until very recently I’ve been shocked at how simple my grief has been.  I’m just sad all the time.  ...

Sports & Judaism Revisted

Last summer MyJewishLearning launched a new section about Judaism and sports. It took a little while to decide on the ...

Moses gets served!

The good folks at Nextbook.org have come out with a pretty funny video satirizing Moses’ leadership while in the desert. ...

Brawling in Jerusalem–And It Wasn’t the Jews!

I heard this story on Sunday morning while making French toast, and I have to say, it made me feel ...

Know Your Biblical History

Last night I got a call from a student at the University of Iowa asking me to give some money ...

Windmueller on the Election

This week’s homepage features an article by Prof. Steven Windmueller on the changing Jewish American vote. However, the piece was ...

Euthanasia in the News

There is a very sad story coming out of the Washington DC area this week. It involves, Motl Brody, a ...

A Note On Hebrew Pronunciation

One of my biggest pet peeves is when people mispronounce Hebrew words, especially when the person in question is leading ...

Lekh Lekha (Get out of here.)

That’s right — the next time you don’t like someone, tell them Lekh lekha. That’s what G-d told Abraham, who ...

This One’s for Sarah

The press has a love-hate relationship with fierce-minded politicians. At the same time as we of the liberal media quiver ...

Someone didn’t get that The Producers was a comedy

Here is the list of events that you are not allowed to make light of:1) The Holocaust2) Rwandan Genocide3) The ...

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