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Wise Fridays: There Is No Life
There is no life without a task; no person without a talent; no place without a fragment of God’s light ...
Finding the Moshiach in Lost
SPOILER ALERT: If you watch Lost, and have not seen last night’s episode, “He’s Our You,” yet, go watch it, ...
Musaf First Aid (just in case…)
Today is Rosh Chodesh, the beginning of the Hebrew month and the festival of the New Moon. Jews celebrate by ...
Shabbat at South by Southwest
Alan Jay Sufrin and Miriam Brosseau form Stereo Sinai, a self-described “biblegum pop” band based in Chicago, IL. This week, ...
Open Mouth, Don’t Insert Foot
Last night a friend of mine really upset me. I know it wasn’t intentional, but she said something that sent ...
Huge Diamond Heist, It Must Have Been the Jews
I love heist movies (Bank Job, Inside Man, Ocean’s 11 etc) and heist books (The Great Train Robbery and anything ...
What Makes You Happy
Hand-written scrawl on a bright orange piece of photocopy paper hanging on the street in Crown Heights: ADAR IS NOTOVER ...
That is So Not Frum
It makes me insane when people say, “Hey, I know this Orthodox person who does X, so it must be ...
Professor Foxy, Antony and the Johnsons at Shul, and Winning Chicken Soup
Things have been pretty busy at MJL this week, so I haven’t been able to blog about some of the ...
No Porn on Shabbos!
I don’t like porn. I definitely don’t like porn on Shabbat. It’s not a double mitzvah if you’re doing it ...
Unmasking Agunot
Among the religious community, there’s a huge problem of agunot — that is, women who want a divorce from their ...
Is Sex a Basic Human Right?
Over the weekend I watched one of my favorite movies for the millionth time: High Fidelity. In the movie, the ...