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Evangelical Tractate Bonanza, or, My Christian-Take-on-Jewish-Holidays Learning

Secret disclosure #481516: I like to collect evangelical Christian tractates.Since I’ve become a parent and gotten a regular gig — ...

Extra! New York Times Runs Story about Jews!

What’s the key to any ultra-popular Jewish news story? Start out with a question — a popular Jewish activity, asking ...

ROI Roundup: Saying “Shalom” to Israel (for now)

As a satirist and a cynic, you would think that at the conclusion of ROI, I would have a laundry ...

ROI 120 Roundup: Text Study, Dylan, and Twitter

I woke up Wednesday morning with a new bounce in my step. Today was the day I was going to ...

10 Things I Hate about Commandments

I’m a big proponent of making the Torah relevant for modern society and everyday life. Maybe it’s my whole Orthodox ...

From the Academy: Art History

Samantha Baskind is Associate Professor of Art History at Cleveland State University. Her first book, Raphael Soyer and the Search ...

Where Are the Jewish Food Movies?

I love food movies. Like Water for Chocolate? Hot. Eat Drink, Man Woman? Steamy. Mostly Martha? Phenomenal. Chocolat? Luscious. Big ...

Books, Books, and More Books

For one day at the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, writers, and poets take the place of journalists in covering the news ...

Maple Syrup Is In The Air

I wouldn’t call myself particularly patriotic. I think that outward patriotism is a finite object. In other words, you can ...

ROI 120 Roundup: Learning the Media

My roommate and I slept right through the alarm and woke up just in time to realize that we had ...

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