beliefs

Advertisement

Smoking and Jewish Law

As a new parent, I’ve become suddenly and acutely sensitive to smoking. While I used to personally detest it and ...

How do you help…?

This morning on the subway, I was scribbling away in my notebook — scrunched up, as usual, between a 300-pound ...

Religious. Gay. You’ve heard this, right?

Earlier this year, the Israeli website HOD launched. It’s a Hebrew acronym that roughly translates to “religious and gay.” It’s ...

Jewish Magic

A couple of weeks ago, a California man named Naftoli Smolyansky disappeared during a boating trip after jumping in the ...

Judgment Day

It’s the month of Elul, the time when we begin the introspection that culminates with the High Holidays. So I ...

P(r)aying for a Blessing

On the way out of work yesterday, I was a little dazed — possibly by the sun, possibly by the ...

Literature Rodeo

From our friends at Jbooks. The Daily Show’s resident Brit John Oliver sounds off on apocalyptic literature. Eschatology and comedy: ...

Eyes to See with, Photos to Kvell over

Score one (more) for budding innovative technologies in Israel: at Beit Ha’iver, the Center of the Blind, in Herzliya, a ...

Magic Jewish Fences

Two things: first of all, Tamar Fox’s article on Jewcy about the struggle to erect an eruv — or what ...

Jesus and Me

Benyamin Cohen’s new book My Jesus Year is nearing its release date, and the official website has just gone up. ...

Advertisement