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Last Friday night, my sister was at a friend’s house for dinner. They had a filling Shabbat meal, sat around ...

Last night I attended The Kosher Quandary: Ethics and Kashruth, which was the inaugural event of Yeshiva University’s new student ...

Salon is featuring a question about someone who doesn’t want to let shomer Shabbat people into her building: Dear Cary, ...

I’m kind of hardcore about separation of church and state. Most of the religious things that people want to bring ...

In Denmark, a bill was proposed which would prohibit the circumcision of any men before the age of 15. Ynet ...

A reader wrote in, asking me to post this article, which is the most complete account I’ve found so far ...

Guest blogger Simcha Weinstein is the rabbi of the Pratt Institute. His latest book, Shtick Shift: Jewish Humor in the ...

I’m a big fan of religious controversy.  I like it when people stand up and say things that make any ...

Last week, I blogged about the Jewish community’s (and particularly the Orthodox community’s) confrontation with residual racism (in light of ...

In the mid-’90s, Israeli television personality Gil Kopatch brought Rabbi Mordechai Gafni on his sports/talk/news show to discuss the weekly ...

An update on the evolution debate my home state of Crazyland, aka Texas. Just before the school year, the board ...

Last night I went to the Mechon Hadar beit midrash  for a session on prayer leaders, and what qualities a ...