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Oh To Be Prince Caspian
The temptation to read Judaism into pop culture is great. There is a popular Hebrew High School curiculum based on ...
Vic Hershkowitz, Handball Legend
Today’s New York Times reports the death of Vic Hershkowitz one of the great handball players of all time. Competing ...
Frum Entertainment
This week’s featured homepage article is written by MJL’s go-to movie critic Saul Austerlitz. But recently in the Forward, he ...
The San Francisco Contemporary Jewish Museum
The new Contemporary Jewish Museum, seeks to present “a contemporary perspective on Jewish art, culture and historyâ€?, without functioning as ...
Object Origins
Recently Dunkin’ Donuts pulled a television spot featuring talk show host and Food Network personality Rachael Ray after a Fox ...
Facing Tomorrow — and Yesterday
There were many surreal moments last Wednesday night, when Shimon Peres’ “Facing Tomorrow” conference celebrated the American-Israeli relationship, an evening ...
Lag Ba’Omer Recipe
Lag Ba’Omer is next week, and one of the customs of this minor holiday is to light bonfires and eat ...
Pray Ball
Last night I was watching the Chicago Cubs game against the St. Louis Cardinals on ESPN. Around the top of ...
From the Academy: The Wandering Jew
In this installment of From the Academy Dr. Galit Hasan Rokem, Max and Margarethe Grunwald Chair of Folklore at the Hebrew ...
Mah Jongg, Anyone?
Oh Jay Firestone. Replace “Twenty-three” with “Twenty-six” and “male” with “female” and you actually have me: The Next Intergenerational Mah ...