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All weekend I’ve continued my obsession with Michael Muhammad Knight’s book The Taqwacores, which follows a bunch of young Muslim ...

I haven’t written much about actually saying Kaddish in the past few months, partially because it has become so much ...

Although I can’t actually remember whether he played “King Without a Crown,” that iconoclastic first single that a friend swore ...

It’s mostly PR, but it’s a kind of PR that the Israeli government hasn’t historically shown the capability to produce ...

Last night a friend and I went to go see Waltz With Bashir, the animated Israeli film about memories of ...

Herman Rosenblatt has become famous for his amazing story of how he met his wife. He claimed that while he ...

Because it’s impossible to write enough stories on Hasidic Jews and sexuality, Nextbook has an article on dressing modestly in ...

The son of the head of Yemenite Jewish community (that is, the Jewish community still in Yemen) was shot and ...

I try not to write about Israeli politics. I really try. Lately, I’ve become a bit jaded on the subject ...

Dammit! I so wasn’t going to mention Santa on the Interweb today. And I was never going to mention the ...