Mixed Multitudes
East Meets West
This morning, I blogged about the poetry of Taha Muhammad Ali and his translator, Peter Cole. In July, I wrote ...
Important Poetry
Thanks to Jewschool for highlighting this amazing video of poet Taha Muhammad Ali at the Dodge Poetry Festival earlier this ...
Remembering Rabbi Waldenberg
The Jerusalem Post reports:Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Waldenberg, one of the most respected halachic authorities of the modern era and a ...
Native Americans & Jews
It’s Thanksgiving reading time. And for us at MJL, that’s got to start with David Koffman’s fascinating article about the ...
Karaites at the GA
Our homepage this week features an article about the Karaites, a sect of Judaism that rejected the authority of the ...
Jewcy: The Early Reviews
Jewish bloggers have written their first reviews of the recently launched Jewcy.com and they’re not being generous.– Ariel over at ...
Happy Birthday, Don
Today is author Don DeLillo’s 70th birthday. Sure, he’s not Jewish and — as far as I can remember — ...
Leo Baeck on God, Halakha
In anticipation of Leo Baeck’s 50th yahrzeit on Sunday, I’d like to highlight a few other aspects of his thought. ...
Borat’s a Muslim!
The Letters section has always been my favorite part of Jewish newspapers, and the Jewish Week isn’t letting me down. ...
Jewcy is Born
There’s a new kid on the Jewish media block. This week, while the older generation was in LA listening to ...