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If a shomer shabbas toothbrush wasn’t enough for you, can you try a shomer shabbas lamp or one of the ...

A couple of weeks ago, a California man named Naftoli Smolyansky disappeared during a boating trip after jumping in the ...

It’s the month of Elul, the time when we begin the introspection that culminates with the High Holidays. So I ...

In today’s Jewel of Elul, Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American ...

I was internetless in the mountains for a bit, so I missed the whole furious flurry about how Magneto might ...

The Knesset has passed a law saying that Haredi high schools can legally get funding without teaching the core curriculum, ...

Today is not only Labor Day; it is also Rosh Chodesh Elul, the first day of the Jewish month of ...

Yoel Marcus asks of Benjamin Netanyahu, “What is the secret of this man, who flubbed up as prime minister, who ...

On the way out of work yesterday, I was a little dazed — possibly by the sun, possibly by the ...

A friend sent me the following hilarity…

The Jewish Agency releases a new plan for attracting 1,000 American high-tech professionals to Israel by 2010, but “Just 30 ...

Recently, we received a letter in the office from a person in jail, asking if we can send him a ...

NPR reports that refugees from Sudan, Eritrea and Kenya, fleeing the economic and health crises in their own countries, are ...

A recent issue of the Economist had a fascinating review of Edna Fernandes’ new book The Last Jews of Kerala: ...

I went home for Shabbat. Home meaning my parents’ house, which despite knowing I shouldn’t — I have an apartment ...