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Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, is an old-school organization in the very best sense. It’s BIG (the largest ...
Say It Ain’t So
Please please please please please say this isn’t true.An anti-Semitic blog is claiming that Sarah Palin is *gasp* Jewish.Normally, you ...
Celebrate Yom Kippur With Jewish Athletes
For reasons that aren’t totally clear to me InGameNow decided to take Yom Kippur as an opportunity to list their ...
A Fancy Chabadnik
In this week’s Forward, Dani Shapiro writes about an experience that most of us have experienced. I was pushing my ...
A Shark’s Tale 2: The New Testament
So it turns out it’s not impossible. According to the recently published edition of the Journal of Fish Biology, there ...
What We Leave Behind
During Yom Kippur services this year, I came up with the best praying strategy I’ve ever had, I think. It’s ...
The Case of the Jew-y Getaway Car
If I was going to rob a bank on and steal a rabbi’s car to use as a getaway vehicle, ...
Aramaic for the Masses
Over at the Aramaic Blog there’s news of an online Introduction to Aramaic course being offered at a discount to ...
Early Yom Kippur Memory
I was just discussing in the office about how the first concert I ever attended was when I saw Shlock ...
I Command You to Eat
It’s Erev Yom Kippur, so everyone get eating! Just as there is a commandment to fast on Yom Kippur, there ...
Israel and Iran Make Nice Over Sick Kid
An Iranian child with a brain tumor will be in Israel with his family for two weeks while he undergoes ...
Kol Nidrei for the Ages
Yesterday on Slate (apparent my new go-to blog for Jewish content other than Mixed Multitudes), Michael Weiss shared the history ...
Pink Ribbons and Yom Kippur
It’s October, which, as you may have noticed is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and there’s a pink ribbon on everything ...
Shana Tova from the Bottom of the World
I’m the helpdesk manager here at MJL — which means that any question that gets sent to the site drops ...
A Yom Kippur Poem
From Slate’s weekly poem collection. Click here to listen to the author Philip Schultz read it. You are asked to ...