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Eight Days of Yid Vid

I, like most people who sit in front of a computer all day long, enjoy a good viral video. And ...

Do they light it left to right?

If you’ve ever been to Israel as a tourist, it’s likely that you took a picture in front of this ...

Here’s $100,000

The five candidates for the $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature have been announced. This year’s award is for ...

The Inspired Kitchen

Eating fried foods is one of the distinct pleasures of Hanukkah, and the tradition behind it is well-known. According to ...

Is a half a bible better than nothing?

I’ve never been a big fan of The View. Mostly because I’m sitting on a train every time the show ...

A Reformed Temple

A small plane crashed into a synagogue in Georgia last night, killing the pilot. The few people inside the synagogue ...

Another Autonomous Jewish State

On the heels of yesterday’s post about the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan, comes a report from YNet about another ...

Miracles, Gelt, and Hip Hop

-JAY MICHAELSON would like Hanukkah without supernatural miracles. (Jbooks)-An exploration of the why, and the how-good, of chocolate Hanukkah gelt. ...

Jewish Autonomous Region

JTA reports: “Officials in the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan in Siberia claim to have built the world’s largest menorah.”Which ...

A Letter to the Conservative Movement

Dear Conservative Movement,I have figured out why you are dying, as many of your own leaders have lamented. The answer ...

Being Cool and Jewish

Sh’ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility has a new feature on its website that is a little quirky but very ...

Rupert Murdoch Believes

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Entertainment Group announced today that it’s signed a deal to buy the religion and spirituality website Beliefnet. ...

Nes Gadol Hayah B’Lake Placid

Understanding miracles is difficult in our time. None of us have witnessed a great sea being split, a burning bush ...

One Less Candle

The Jerusalem Post is reporting a fascinating story about a group of Israeli environmentalists who proposed that Jews light one ...

It’s All Our Fault

The holiday spirit has descended upon Christopher Hitchens. What kind of present are we getting?A Hanukkah message, in which he ...

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