culture
A MacArthur Mazal Tov
The wonderful Peter Cole — a poet, publisher, and translator — has received a MacArthur “genius” award. The fellowship, given ...
An Original Hipster
Jennifer Bleyer, founding editor of Heeb Magazine, has an essay on the continued meaning that the Jewish Catalog has for her ...
Literature and the Arts
-Appreciations of the recently deceased writer Grace Paley: The Jewish Week NJ Jewish News The Forward Los Angeles Times -The ...
Five Years of Trembling
To commemorate the five-year anniversary of Trembling on the Road, director Sandi Dubowski has launched a campaign to celebrate and ...
The End of an Era
I tend to get nostalgic around Rosh Hashanah, and in my JPost column this usually results in a September piece ...
Censorship in Israel
Earlier this week, MJL launched a new subject area: Theatre & Dance — a collection of articles about Jewish performance ...
Pickled
Here at MJL, we love food. We have a monthly recipe e-letter as well as a whole section devoted to ...
Eat Your Plov
What is plov? And why is it an Uzbeki favorite? Find out the answers to all these questions and more ...
Trembling Before Allah
Sandi Dubowski, director of Trembling Before God, the remarkable documentary about gay Orthodox Jews, has just announced the premier of ...
Remembering Grace Paley
Earlier this year, when Tillie Olsen passed away, I emailed Alice Mattison, author of the wonderful story collection In Case ...