Mixed Multitudes
A King Crowned by Birds
The new book Folktales of the Jews: Tales from Arab Lands, edited by Dan Ben-Amos, collects hundreds of years’ worth ...
The Butter Ten Commandments
Shavuot is on the horizon, which means everyone is preparing for a holiday whose main ritual is eating blintzes. Don’t ...
Get Swabbed
Recently Mayim Bialik posted for our friends at Kveller about a 2-year-old boy named Ezra who is desperately in need ...
May You Be Who You Are
Haley Tanner‘s debut novel, Vaclav and Lena, is now available. She will be blogging all week for the Jewish Book Council ...
Judaism & The Arts
Increasingly, artistic works of Judaica are being housed not in Jewish institutions or self-contained collections, but rather in mainstream institutions, ...
Wise Fridays: The Free Will Problem
“To act rightly or otherwise rests for the most part with man, but in each action Fate cooperates.” —Josephus Flavius ...
Best of the Week
A very important update from last week. I mentioned in last Friday’s Best of the Week that I needed a ...
When Adam Met Eve
The Bible doesn’t do the best job of letting the main characters tell their side of the story. Take Moses ...
Campy Lizards, or, A Look Back to My Literary Beginnings
Earlier this week, C. Alexander London wrote about being an accidental adventurer and sequels and the Torah.In honor of the end of Book Expo ...
X-Men: First Class: New Holocaust Footage
Fox Studios released four new clips from the new X-Men movie last night. If you’ve followed our coverage of Magneto’s ...
Justin Bieber’s New Tattoo
Oh good news! Justin Bieber, King of the Universe, got a tattoo–and it’s in Hebrew! But before we Jews get ...
The Never Ending Book
On Monday, our guest-blogger C. Alexander London wrote about being an accidental adventurer. He will be blogging all week for ...