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Defending Babel

This past Shabbat, I heard a friend of mine speak at the Jewish Theological Seminary. The general argument in his ...

I’ve been watching a lot of TLC lately, and it seems like the angle of that network is essentially, ‘Watch ...

Yesterday, I attended a session with Rabbi Chuck Simon, the Executive Director of the Federation of Jewish Men’s Clubs, a ...

Our newest section, Magic & the Supernatural, has articles about all types of amulets and other magical objects. We’ve been ...

G-dcast has been going off the hook lately. First there was the wave of Jewish blogs raving, then the Gigaom ...

Technological artist Elliot Malkin isn’t a stranger to religious art. While still a student at NYU, he designed Crucifix NG, ...

I haven’t yet seen Bill Maher’s new documentary Religulous, but it’s premise is hardly novel. By now, we know the ...

"Whatever is effective as a remedy is not witchcraft (Shabbat 67a)"--is that really the case?

The rabbis of the Talmud believed that magic was real and legitimate, when performed by sages who used the power of Torah.

(Cross-posted at The Jew & The Carrot)I love sukkot, but one of the things that has always frustrated me about ...

Earlier today, Tamar called out the Hasidic community in Williamsburg for, well, defacing advertisements for restaurants that are seen as ...

So it turns out it’s not impossible.Â According to the recently published edition of the Journal of Fish Biology, there ...