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As a new parent, I’ve become suddenly and acutely sensitive to smoking. While I used to personally detest it and ...

Last week it was reported that six men were arrested in Pakistan for burying five women alive in a so-called ...

My copy of The Autobiographer’s Handbook arrived today. Edited by the illimitable Jennifer Traig, with an introduction by Dave Eggers, ...

I need to confess something.  I have a big crush on Mordecai Kaplan.  I am a firm believer that most ...

Recently I walked into a Judaica store in New York City with my boyfriend. We had to buy some new ...

Great news for those hoping the upcoming Israeli elections will decrease corruption by government officials. Aryeh Deri is running for ...

These Presidential elections sure do go on for a while.  Sometimes, I say, “Why can’t the US just be like ...

Well, except for the name part. According to Vos Iz Neias, Rubashkin isn’t the only game in town — or ...

The complex set of lessons imparted at the IDF’s Officer Training School near Mitzpe Ramon. (Jerusalem Post)Only 52% of Israeli ...

I received this from a (non-Jewish) teacher at a school that’s largely not Jewish. It’s a classroom experiment — and, ...

Yesterday, I had never heard of Dothan, Alabama.  Today, I might be considering a move there.  Larry Blumberg and his ...

Scientists at Hebrew University are helping to raise Israel’s first sturgeon population at Kibbutz Dan in the Upper Galilee. Female ...

You know that story wherein a group of rabbis in a concentration camp assembles a beit din — a team ...

This morning on the subway, I was scribbling away in my notebook — scrunched up, as usual, between a 300-pound ...

Earlier this year, the Israeli website HOD launched. It’s a Hebrew acronym that roughly translates to “religious and gay.” It’s ...