Practices
Kosher Frozen Diet TV Dinners? YES!
I just received a survey from the Orthodox Union (OU)’s kashrut department asking me what foods I’d like to see ...
One Less Candle
The Jerusalem Post is reporting a fascinating story about a group of Israeli environmentalists who proposed that Jews light one ...
Being Secular and Jewish
In today’s Jewish world, a whole range of post-denominational identities has popped up. For those that took part in our ...
What Hell Smells Like
The Jerusalem Post reports:Reform and Conservative synagogues reek of hell [Gehinom] and a Jew should not even come near their ...
Covering Up at the Beach
MJL recently got an interesting email from a woman designing a line of modest swimwear. Thought I’d share: Shalom…I am ...
Bringing Down Rubashkin’s
Apparently, Agriprocessors/Rubashkin’s — the largest glatt kosher slaughterhouse in the world — is in trouble again.The PETA-challenged company issued a ...
Jesus and Halakha
I was recently researching some of the ritual practices of Jews for Jesus and stumbled upon the website of the ...
Is JTA Out of Touch?
Over at Cross-Currents, Eytan Kobre has referenced a recent JTA report as proof that the secular Jewish media doesn’t understand ...
Vegging Out
It was an honest mistake on our part. We were too busy celebrating Jewish Social Action Month for most of ...
Inventing Jewish Ritual
I just finished Vanessa Och’s book Inventing Jewish Ritual , which not only investigates the development, acceptance, and theory of ...