Partner Blogs
Song of the Week
It’s not a secret that I’m a huge fan of the band Stereo Sinai. There are a lot of folks ...
Hope In Our Hands
Fittingly, on the night of his big speech to the Republican National Convention, John McCain is the author of today’s ...
Ultra-Orthodox Activism
On the right-wing Haredi news site Vos Iz Neias, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz takes the Orthodox world to task on the ...
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 ...