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A New Haggadah to Get Excited About

Guess what? The Maxwell House Haggadah is being reissued this year, and it’s new and improved…but let’s face it, probably ...

Wise Fridays: Abolish Wars

“It is hard to do justice to the originality of men who, in the eighth century BCE, untutored by the ...

Win a Gorgeous Jewish Cookbook!

Here at MJL we are very proud of our frequent contributor and generally awesome friend Leah Koenig, whose cookbook, The ...

Cantillation Survey

If you’ve been to a few different Torah services you’ve probably noticed that everyone who chants from the Torah has ...

LimmudNY: The Responsibility of the Teacher

When you’re attending four or five sessions a day at a conference like LimmudNY, you start to compile an internal ...

LimmudNY: Let’s Not Muddy This Up With Jewish Texts

So I just went to my first session here at LimmudNY 2011. It was called Relationships and Sexuality Consumerist Culture ...

Wise Fridays:

“Do not say, ‘Why should I lessen my own fortune by giving my money to this poor person?’ Bear in ...

Teaching Civil Rights to Jews

Many of us know that Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel walked with Martin Luther King Jr. at the Selma Civil Rights ...

Debbie Friedman, Bringing Communities Together

NPR did a nice piece about the death this weekend of Debbie Friedman, a musician whose music impacted thousands and ...

Don’t Steal Torahs

If you’re thinking that’s pretty obvious, good for you. If you’re thinking, “Hey, why the heck not?” you’re a lot ...