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Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood?

The ultra-frum neighborhood where I grew up in Chicago has been subject to anti-Semitic graffiti and vandalism in the past ...

Halakha and Avoiding Civilian casualties

England’s Jewish Chronicle is running a great Op-Ed by Daniel Reisel about the Jewish legal obligation to avoid civilian casualties ...

J Street, I Almost Loved You

In The Case for Israel, Alan Dershowitz devotes two chapters to people who he refers to as “More Israeli than ...

Chrismukkah Cookbook A Waste of Cash

I was out with a friend on Sunday and came across the Chrismukkah Cookbook. Written by Ron Gompertz the cookbook ...

At Least They Weren’t Pulled In to Make a Minyan

On New Year’s Eve, while you were busy not remembering your evening, two men dressed as Hasidic Jews robbed Dialite ...

Newsbite Volley: Right Now in Gaza

It’s the 13th day of the war, and things are showing no signs of letting up or chilling out. And ...

King David: Coming to Primetime

Now you can do some of your Jewish learning in the evenings while you watch the tube. NBC will begin ...

Chinese Takeout in the New Yorker

Last week the New Yorker published a longish piece (registration required) about Orthodox rabbis who criss-cross China certifying that various ...

Holocaust in the News

A potential convert finds himself “never able to connect emotionally with the Nazi genocide as so many of my fellow ...

Faster, Faster: Asara B’Tevet

Today is the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Tevet, and as such is a minor fast day. You ...

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