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A Guide to the (Not So) Complex: An Interview with Nick Teich

Nick Teich is a busy person. In between pursuing a Ph.D. in social policy at Brandeis University’s Heller School for ...

You Care More About Winning Than You Do About Our Children!

I felt like I was a character in a movie I was warned not to see. The parent on the ...

Mark Twain, “Mishpocha,” and Me

Earlier this week, Erika Dreifus, the author of Quiet Americans, wrote about the inspiration for her book and Jewish-American Literature ...

Abraham Abulafia & Ecstatic Kabbalah

One strand of medieval kabbalah focused on achieving a transformative mystical experience.

Tzedakah in the Bible

The Bible backed up its exhortations to assist the poor with laws and practices that gave poor people a claim to a share of society’s wealth.

Max Nordau

Physician, intellectual, Zionist.

Promowork: A Necessary Evil, Part II

This week, Joshua Cohen and Justin Taylor exchange ideas around book promotion, materials of writing, and the devolution of the author. ...

Glam Doilies

Confession time: I grew up a Conservative Jew, and although I’m Orthodox now — or Hasidic, or Biala, or hairy, ...

Nedarim 23

Impotent ultimatums.

The Jewish Bakery in Panama Looking for a Baker

If you spend your day job dreaming of bagels, rye, and knishes, and harbor a desire to live in the ...

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