Mixed Multitudes

A new development in Jewish academia: Hebrew University’s Rothberg International School is starting an MA program in Philanthropy Studies. This ...

Apparently, there’s a new grassroots movement to protest the ultra-Orthodox, anti-Zionist, Iran-friendly Neturei Karta. Its code name: Operation Screwball. (The ...

This just in from JTA: Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, founder and leader of Jewish Renewal, ordained two rabbis, two rabbinic pastors ...

The New York Times last week had an interesting article on free will and the current scientific debate about whether ...

In my latest column for the Jerusalem Post, I re-examine Norman Podhoretz’s Making It, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary ...

I don’t mean to start the post-holiday period with death notices, but the great Israeli literary critic Gershon Shaked died ...

I emailed Alice Mattison (author of the wonderful story collection In Case We’re Separated) and asked her to share some ...

A couple of weeks ago, I hosted an event at the 92nd Street Y with the writer Alice Mattison. When ...

At some point I got signed up for a “Daily Halacha” email by a Rabbi Eli Mansour. Usually, I’m most ...

MyJewishLearning’s editors have selected the four most important Jewish stories of 2006 — and another three stories that may or ...