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From the Forward: Moses and God are coming to the big screen later this month. “The Ten Commandments,� an animated ...

Philip Roth’s wait continues. Doris Lessing has won this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature. MORE…

Maybe God really isn’t great. If He were so great, wouldn’t He have made sure Christopher Hitchens wasn’t nominated for ...

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I don’t usually need an excuse to talk about Philip Roth, but his new novel Exit Ghost seemed like a ...

Prior to the High Holidays, the New York Board of Rabbis previewed its official Jewish New York History and Heritage ...

Yesterday I posted an interview I did with Joshua Henkin, author of the new novel Matrimony. Now here’s an excerpt ...

MJL contributing writer Jessica Kraft has just launched a website featuring the contemporary ketubot that she designs for soon-to-be married ...

Joshua Henkin’s new novel Matrimony hits bookstores today. You can read a description of the book here and order it ...

The holiday of Sukkot is associated with the fall harvest, and serving stuffed foods is a symbolic and flavorful way ...