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The Best Learning You’ll Do Offline–Yeshivat Hadar

During the summer of 2007 I was a fellow at the first summer of Yeshivat Hadar, an intensive 8-week egalitarian ...

Hasidic Boy Dies

I just wanted to update everyone on the situation of Motl Brody, the 12 year old boy who was on ...

Just Like The Sopranos, But With Thicker Chest Hair

A known Israeli mobster, Yaakov Alperon, was assassinated on Monday in Tel Aviv.  Alperon’s car blew up, killing him and ...

Sderot in the News

Yesterday evening, I had one of those rare moments when I found myself watching the evening news (Truth be told, ...

Obama Introspection

In the wake of Barack Obama’s victory, there’s been quite a bit of laudable introspection on behalf of the Jewish ...

The Bernstein Effect

Now that we will have our first African-American president, it’s time to start speculating about the next ethnic/gender/religious barrier to ...

Poll: Great Article Titles

Hey kids, it’s that time of week again, where you get to exercise your democratic right to give your opinion ...

The Case of the Disappearing Church

Last year there was a sad story of a synagogue in Tajikistan that had to be destroyed because the government ...

The Rav Raps on Rahm

This is a how-to guide. Fame is an arbitrary thing, where the spokesperson for a certain person or issue is ...

Old School Birthing

Yesterday’s New York Times profiled the recent rise in home birthing, a concept that started out as the only option ...

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