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A Self-Hating Jews Double-Header

A sentence was handed out in the case of eight Israeli teenagers, members of a neo-Nazi gang, who beat up ...

Is Zach Braff Going to Make Aliyah?

Scrubs star Zach Braff is hanging out in Tel Aviv these days, and in an interview with Haaretz it sure ...

God Wants You To Get Laid (Or Eat Chocolate Cake)

I love this article in the New York Times about a pastor who told his congregation of some 20,000 people ...

On Racism

Last week, I blogged about the Jewish community’s (and particularly the Orthodox community’s) confrontation with residual racism (in light of ...

A Baby By Any Other Name…

JTA is currently featuring an article about the challenge of choosing a name for a Jewish baby, so I thought ...

Hard Core Religion

The L.A. Times ran a piece a few days ago on Muslim punk-rock teenagers, which mostly served as an excuse ...

What Happens Then?

Last week an older man who I know from various minyanim on the Upper West Side mentioned that he was ...

Signs that Jewish trendiness is dying

Okay, I just followed a Google Ad which led to a website advertising this book — a 636-page edition, limited ...

Rabban Gamliel, Mormons, and People Who Aren’t There

Last night I went to the Mechon Hadar beit midrash  for a session on prayer leaders, and what qualities a ...

Jews and Proposition 8

Controversy time!Have an opinion on California’s Proposition 8 banning gay marriage? You are not the only one. Check out the ...

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