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Feeling superstitious? Recently The Jewish Week took a look at segulot, Jewish good luck charms. Turns out that they’re not so Jewish after ...

Long gone are the days when standard Jewish attire was a streimel or a sheitl. Today’s Jewish hipster can’t afford ...

According to Jewish Women’s Archive’s This Week in Jewish History, on March 14, 1977 the New York Times published an ...

More on the new edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica: A series of topics have been expanded in the new encyclopedia: ...

Reuters reports: Israel is trying to put a name to the war it waged against Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrillas last year, ...

Thanks to FailedMessiah for pointing out a very interesting article in Biblical Archaeology Review in which Hershel Shanks interviews four ...

Susannnah Heschel has a wonderful article in the Jewish Week about her father, Abraham Joshua Heschel, in which she writes ...

Jean Baudrillard, the maddeningly-obscure, but prophetic, French philosopher died earlier this week at the age of 77.Baudrillard wasn’t Jewish. But ...

The other night I went to an Emerging Jewish Writers panel/reading as part of the Steinhardt Jewish Heritage Festival. The ...

In the world of Jewish learning, understanding Rashi is one of the most basic—and the most difficult—skills you’ll have to ...

As expected, the University of Judaism made the first practical move toward integrating the Conservative movement’s new responsum on homosexuality: ...

Thanks to our friends at American Jewish World Service and the Jewish Outreach Institute you can now read weekly Torah ...

March is Jewish Women’s History Month. But really, shouldn’t every month be Jewish Women’s History Month? Every day of every ...

Slate asks the question on everyone’s mind: “If male martyrs can expect to find 72 virgin maidens in paradise when ...

Today is Shushan Purim, the day Purim is celebrated in cities that were “walled” at the time of Joshua. Most ...