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Beliefs & Practices, Jewish History, Live, Mixed Multitudes, Study
More Lubavitch Fetishism
Remember way back when I wrote about how the New York Times constantly glamorized/fetishized/stared at the world of Hasidic Brooklyn? ...
Best Jewish Food in Chicago
Chicago has always been teeming with Jewish and kosher-style delicatessens and restaurants–you”ll probably recognize some of these if you live ...
Celebrate, High Holidays, Pray, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur
The Mahzor, or High Holiday Prayer Book
A prayer book for the High Holidays.
Jewish History, Magic & the Supernatural, Study
Astrology in Medieval Judaism
In the Middle Ages, Ibn Ezra, Maimonides, and others debated the legitimacy of astrology.
New London
Chabad of Eastern Connecticut The Chabad Lubavitch chapter of Eastern Connecticut located in New London, CT
Blogging the Aggadah
The Aggadah is the non-Jewish Law-intensive part of the Talmud–that is, the part with all the cool stories and lasers ...
The Ban on ‘Tereifah’
Parashat Mishpatim includes a very curious law about eating meat.
Jewish History, Southern & Jewish, Study
That Time Segregationists Spied on BBYO
The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission was created in 1956 to fight against racial integration. An arm of Mississippi’s state government, ...
“All Is Vanity!” How to Understand Ecclesiastes’ Famous Lament
The King James version of the Bible made this phrase familiar, but few understand its full import.