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Fiction Isn’t About Reasons

Our friend Joshua Henkin, whose NYTimes notable book Matrimony just came out in paperback, is guest blogging over at The ...

Sarah Palin *hearts* Jews for Jesus

While not necessarily true, the reports are leaking out: Sarah Palin is a little more, uh, fundamentalist, than her “pit ...

From Berlin to Bunks

Today’s Jewel of Elul is from Elisa Bildner, who chairs the Foundation for Jewish Camp:Erev Shabbat, July 18, 2008. Berlin’s ...

Now I Just Need a Shomer Shabbas Computer to Read These Stories

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

Jewish Magic

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

Judgment Day

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

The Difference Between Yes and No

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

Jews, Comics, Kaddish and Crosses

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

Funding Haredi Education

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

Jewels of Elul 2008

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

Israel’s Parties

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

P(r)aying for a Blessing

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

The Jews Stole Favre

A friend sent me the following hilarity…

Coming to Israel

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

Pentateuchs for Prisoners

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

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