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Jerusalem via Austin
As promised, here’s a link to my Jerusalem Post write-up of this year’s South By Southwest music festival, with a ...
Passover Fun Roundup
Here are some great sites to get your kids or students excited about Passover. Babaganewz has a terrific magic trick, ...
Meir Soloveichik on Interfaith Dialogue
This month’s issue of Commentary includes a lengthy essay by Meir Soloveichik, in which he rejects theological interfaith dialogue. Soloveichik ...
In Your Inbox
Throughout the month of March we’ve been highlighting Jewish Women’s Archive’s This Week in History, a unique feature that highlights ...
For Mom’s Sake
The fourth issue of Guilt & Pleasure is now out, and at first glance, it seems as good (and good-looking) ...
Major Merger
Big news from the West Coast. The University of Judaism and the Brandeis-Bardin Institute are merging and forming a new ...
Ritual Contamination and Liberalism
David Klinghoffer’s latest assault on liberalism — published on Jewcy.com — is an attempt to frame liberalism in terms of ...
The Safran Foer Haggadah
The Forward‘s got the scoop on novelist Jonathan Safran Foer’s next writing projects. The first is a continuation to his ...
Yentl the Mensch
What is it about Barbra?Jewish Women’s Archive celebrates mega-star Barbra Streisand’s 1963 Broadway debut in This Week in History: Streisand has ...
The $Big$ Winner
This just in from the Jewish Book Council: New York, NY (March 21, 2007) –The Jewish Book Council, administrator of ...
Without an Eruv
This past Shabbat, my little boy was a prisoner of Jewish law. The DC Eruv was down, which meant that ...
What if Ariel Sharon Woke Up?
I just got emailed this dialogue that sums up the current state of Israeli politics:It is a rainy night, and ...
My Holocaust
I just received a review copy of Tova Reich’s forthcoming novel My Holocaust, and it looks intense, to say the ...
Jewish Music in Texas
I just returned from a mini-vacation in Austin — my fifth trip to South By Southwest (SXSW), the music industry’s ...
The Stateless Fuhrer
Bringing new meaning to the expression “A day late and a dollar short”: Hitler may be stripped of German citizenship, reports ...