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Clash of the (Jewish) Titans
Last year, JT Waldman and the good folks at JPS Interactive put together a little thing they liked to call ...
Lag Ba’Omer, Not in Meron
What are you doing tonight? We’re going upstate, near Monsey, to some friends who live in the woods. We are ...
Ethical Kashrut: Going Live in 5
It’s been exactly one year since the Agriprocessors/Rubashkin’s scandal broke out, and today, the Orthodox Social Justice organization Uri L’Tzedek ...
Breslov Missionaries
In the religious enclave of Boro Park, Brooklyn, Breslovers are known as the J–‘s Witnesses of Hasidic Judaism. Boys in ...
William Shatner’s Exodus
When it was announced that Leonard Nimoy would return for a cameo appearance in the new Star Trek movie (read ...
Don’t Think About Nazis
Think about Poland. Think about shtetl life, and Jews in Eastern Europe. Are you capable of picturing that without Hitler ...
Religious Lesbians in Tzefat?
I’ve been watching the Israeli movie HaSodot (The Secrets) on youtube over the past few weeks. It’s in Hebrew and ...
Mayim Bialik: From “Blossom” to Brakhot
A few months back, my friend Lisa Klug introduced me to the illimitable joy that is Mayim Bialik. Descendant of ...
He’s Not Faking It! He’s Really Orthodox!
Here’s a video about Alan Veingrad, who played for the Packers, won a Super Bowl, and is now frum. The ...
While I’m On The Subject Of Polls…
Here is a link to a post from The New Republic about a new book by Robert Putnam (“Bowling Alone”) ...