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-There may be as much as 4 billion dollars worth of natural gas offshore of Gaza. Why has it not ...

We all get cravings. There’s the usual–chocolate, pizza, Chinese food. The childlike–macaroni and cheese, peanut butter and jelly. The Jewish–pickles, ...

Today’s Jewel of Elul from Craig and Co. is by Jerome Groopman, a professor of medicine at Harvard and a ...

I finally started reading Michael Chabon’s new novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, and so far, as virtually all the reviews ...

Recently the Union for Reform Judaism published a new edition of Kulanu (All of Us), a resource guide for LGBT ...

Don’t get me wrong. Academic pressure is nothing new. Case in point: when I was in third grade my teacher ...

“The cats here are asleep- the poor, wretched, imprisoned cats. I feel like abusing them.”Just another classic quote from Tomorrow’s ...

Yesterday I blogged about our need, as a community, to confront the darker corners of our textual tradition. I worried ...

Earlier this week I blogged about non-Orthodox couples choosing to have an Orthodox rabbi officiate at their weddings. This post ...

Shmuel Rosner, Ha’aretz’s chief U.S. correspondent, has a piece on Slate which considers Jordan’s stability in the overall status of ...

With the beginning of Elul (duly noted by Lili earlier today) our friends over at Craig and Co. have unveiled ...

This week, I contributed the Dvar Torah to American Jewish World Service’s Dvar Tzedek (which we also syndicate on MJL). ...

This is my first Elul as a mother, but not my first as a daughter. WOW do I have a ...

This past weekend I went to the wedding of a friend of mine. During the ceremony, I cried. But not ...

In my latest column for the Jerusalem Post, I examine the work of Leonard Michaels, whose collected stories were recently ...