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If I ever feel slightly interested in catching up on the Jewish side of politics, I look no further than ...

Growing up, I didn’t know anyone who played mah jongg. Yet when I moved to the suburbs of New York ...

Sometimes I’ll see a link to a website and just assume that it will be terrible. And most of the ...

Apparently Q-Tip is into observing Shabbat since he’s been filming Holy Rollers, a movie about Chassidic drug mules. Totally awesome, ...

Since I started listening to music again, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have become the only band that I listen to. ...

There’s a cool article in the NYTimes today about the pastry chef in the White House. He sounds like an ...

What’s with all the Israel-centric science fiction stories these days? I’m not even talking about Assaf Gavron’s magical-realist novel about ...

Here is a shocker. It has been months since I’ve mentioned my main man Omri Casspi on this blog. As ...

My new short story “Hailing Frequency” was just published (and you can hear or read the whole thing online). It’s ...

Here on MJL we cover the basics—Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Aramaic–but there are others. This week I learned about Juhuri, the ...