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Agunah Progress

It’s an embarrassing fact that Jewish women trying to get a get (writ of divorce) from recalcitrant husbands are often ...

The Regressive Renaissance

Recently, I read — and very much enjoyed — Keith Gessen’s fiction debut All the Sad Young Literary Men. Tonight, ...

Blogging the Aggadah

The Aggadah is the non-Jewish Law-intensive part of the Talmud–that is, the part with all the cool stories and lasers ...

HA YA!

Four years ago in Athens, Gal Fridman (whose first name means wave) took home the first gold medal for Israel ...

More Bulldozer Evilness

Another bulldozer attack in Jerusalem, this one a few hundred meters from the hotel where Barack Obama will be staying ...

Hoop Dreams

Not digging your current job?Have that Zionist inkling to move to Israel?Have professional basketball experience?If you managed to say yes ...

The Jewish Body

A controversy erupts over whether an Orthodox woman, who covers her hair with a wig for religious reasons, should be ...

Rav Amital’s Torah

A couple of months ago I mentioned — with great fondness — Rav Yehuda Amital, the founder of Yeshivat Har ...

Travelling On A Prayer

Everyday I take the Long Island Rail Road to work, although it is not ideal to daven (pray) on the ...

Prisoner Swap With Hezbollah

In Lebanon, Hezbollah uses the swap to argue that the war had a positive outcome. (Haaretz)Uzi Benziman argues that a ...

Who is Paying?

Jacob Berkman, over at The Fundermentalist, asks an ethical question about a topic that isn’t addressed enough–excessive spending in the ...

Closing Ceremonies

Ari Alexander is guest blogging (via Blackberry) from the World Conference on Dialogue in Madrid, organized by the Muslim World ...

Religion & Politics

Ari Alexander is guest blogging (via Blackberry) from the World Conference on Dialogue in Madrid, organized by the Muslim World ...

The Daughters of Sarah & Hagar

Ari Alexander is guest blogging (via Blackberry) from the World Conference on Dialogue in Madrid, organized by the Muslim World ...

Change of Pace

Ari Alexander is guest blogging (via Blackberry) from the World Conference on Dialogue in Madrid, organized by the Muslim World ...

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