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MJL Blankets North America
We have completed our comprehensive collection of local community links throughout the United States and Canada. We now feature links ...
A New CLAL?
Last night, New York’s PBS station broadcast The Hidden Wisdom of Our Yearnings with Irwin Kula, a two-hour premiere of ...
Legal Literature
Today, MyJewishLearning launched its first new subject area in two years: Halakhic Texts. The section — a collection of about ...
DeLillo II
As promised, though a week late, my latest column for the Jerusalem Post is a retrospective about Jerusalem Prize winner ...
Yitz Greenberg on Polytheism
A few weeks ago, I wrote about super-atheist Richard Dawkins’ assertion that the move from polytheism to monotheism shouldn’t necessarily ...
Absurdistan Makes the Cut
The New York Times has released its annual list of the Top 10 books of the year, and Gary Shteyngart’s ...
Hashem and Homosexuality
The Jewish Press just published a poignant (and sad) letter from an Orthodox Jewish man about his struggles with homosexuality. ...
The Dual Loyalty Question
Looks like American Jews aren’t the only ones who spend the aftermath of an election counting how many Jews were ...
Michael Richards: Kind of Jewish
Is Michael Richards Jewish? That’s the question that was on too-many Jews’ minds after Seinfeld‘s Kramer went on his recent ...
Reviewing Allen Ginsberg
Good book criticism has been virtually exiled from the popular press, and the New York Times Book Review — which ...
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 ...