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Remembering A Mystic: Rabbi Yitzhak Luria Ashkenazi

Today is the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Yitzhak Luria Ashkenazi, aka the Arizal or just the Ari (1534-1572). He was the ...

Inveterate Missionizing

On the elevator this morning, a courier — this legit-looking man in his late 30s or so — took out ...

Women Can Sing, Officially

For anyone who missed the public outcry last week about the Israeli youth group Bnei Akiva’s new single-sex policy on ...

Jewish Identity

For “the perpetual discussion of what it means and how it feels to be a Jew�, even though “there is ...

A Detailed Explanation of Niddah, or “Family Purity” Laws

How traditional Jewish women prepare for monthly mikveh use.

Welcome Home Mahmoud Ahmadinejad!

On Wednesday I heard John Ruskay, the executive vice president of the UJA speak at a seminar of 50 college ...

Nuclear Warfare & Obama’s Feelings…

When Barack Obama met with members of the Democratic Caucus to speak about his tour of the Middle East, he ...

Islamic Movement: Knowledge is Dangerous

Chabad is nothing if not well-organized. Each year, they release a set of uniform lesson plans to literally hundreds of ...

Jesus Saves, Moses Eats Deli.

What a waste of a pickle. Probably a full sour too, by the looks of it:

Obama’s Secret Desires Revealed.

I’m not going to reprint it (although, if you’ve got two and a quarter seconds, it’s easy to Google), but ...

The Jewish Body

A controversy erupts over whether an Orthodox woman, who covers her hair with a wig for religious reasons, should be ...

Rav Amital’s Torah

A couple of months ago I mentioned — with great fondness — Rav Yehuda Amital, the founder of Yeshivat Har ...

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