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Guest blogger Simcha Weinstein is the rabbi of the Pratt Institute. His latest book, Shtick Shift: Jewish Humor in the ...

Last night I met up with some of my old friends from the Jewish Society at Oxford, and remembered how ...

Sorry gentile college students of Toronto.  That long weekend trip to Cape Cod you were planning next Rosh Hashanah is ...

A recent trend in commercials about political issues is to have a close up of a famous celebrity/sad looking child’s ...

Recently a group of more than 250 Jewish studies scholars endorsed Barack Obama. At first I was a little confused ...

In this installment of “From the Academy,� Dr. Benjamin Sommer, Professor of Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary, tells us ...

An email from the usually-hilarious San Francisco-based comic Heather Gold (who, by the way, you can see live on Margaret ...

MJL’s latest biography tells the story of Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the father of Modern Hebrew. So determined to bring Hebrew ...

In New York, the Metropolitan Transit Authority is testing digital ads on the sides of buses — and the ever-vigilant ...

Reincarnators aren’t the only people interested in Anne Frank. The Diary of Anne Frank was recently translated in the Khmer, ...