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The fast day of Tisha B’av begins tonight. Like Yom Kippur, this fast lasts a full 26 hours. Argh. I ...

On Sunday, I’ll be heading to Park City, Utah for a conference called called “Why Be Jewish?” The 2 1/2 ...

Rabbi Sherwin Wine, who founded the Secular Humanistic Judaism movement, died in a car crash this weekend. He was 79. ...

A poll shows that in Israel, 27 percent of the Jewish population observes the Shabbat according to Halacha, while 20% ...

Before there were Halliburton and Exxon-Mobil, there was United Fruit.I’ve been spending a lot of my spare time over the ...

As I was browsing articles on Harry Potter, I came across an item from last year where Daniel Radcliffe (Harry ...

The other day I blogged about my gut discomfort with the class-action lawsuit brought by children of Holocaust survivors, asking ...

A look at the extensive splits within the religious establishment in Israel, and their increasing inability to deal with challenges ...

Today’s offering of Harry Potter is a look at the new book Harry Potter and the Torah. No, it’s not ...

As Kanye West so eloquently rapped in “Never Let Me Down”, “Racism is still alive, they just be concealing it.” ...

My quest for Harry Potter news continues. As I noted in my blog yesterday, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, ...

The Shabazi shul in LA has “no sign and no front door.…The Shema prayer … is … not a melody. ...

Last week, NPR’s “Heard on the Street” featured a “debate” between Jew for Jesus Larry Dubin and Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld ...

I don’t want to judge people who have been traumatized by Holocaust-survivor parents, but I’m not sure I can help ...

The frenzy has finally hit me. After seeing, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix this weekend (in 3-D, ...