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Messiah & Ignorance
I recently received a bizarre email that went a little like this: “The following are reasons for why the Mashiach ...
Church of Science Open for Business Online and in Berkeley
If faith always appealed to you, but you’re a rationally minded-scientist who can’t get past that big leap, there’s a ...
Israeli Film,Theatre, & Politics
The playwright Gilad Evron criticizes establishment theater in Israel, and other matters. (Haaretz)Some Israeli actresses, most notably Ayelet Zurer, are ...
The Joshua Generation
My favorite moment from CNN last night had nothing to do with holographic reporters. Just after the polls closed in ...
Art Scroll Stocks Expected to Tumble…
The world of technology sure is moving fast. While CNN is now using holograms to interview people, BlackBerry is running ...
Ooh Child
Last night everything changed. I knew they were going to change when I got to the polls at 6AM on ...
Election Roundup
Just in: According to ABC News and Fox News, Rahm Emanuel has been offered the position of President Obama’s Chief ...
Vote, vote, vote!
I’m sure this will catch you by surprise. Today is the Presidential election in the United States. We here at ...
Is Good Food Excessively Indulgent?
(Cross-posted at The Jew and the Carrot) I wrote about this once before, but wanted to return to the topic ...
Is Gen-WE Jewish?
Check out this excellent video, meant to complement a new book called Generation WE by Eric Greenberg and Karl Weber. ...
Sarah Silverman inspires others…
I can’t make any promises, but this, hopefully, will be my last post concerning The Great Schlep (I’m not even ...
Only in America
Guest blogger Simcha Weinstein is the rabbi of the Pratt Institute. His latest book, Shtick Shift: Jewish Humor in the ...
The Chabad Emissaries of Cool
In areas like Williamsburg, Brooklyn, hipsters and Hasidim have existed in their own separate worlds, isolated except for rare events ...
Defending Babel
This past Shabbat, I heard a friend of mine speak at the Jewish Theological Seminary. The general argument in his ...
A Voting Prayer
Had you asked me a few months ago about new Jewish rituals, I would have told you that those “touchy ...