Mixed Multitudes

“The Rabbis said: Even though you may think them superfluous in this world, creatures such as flies, bugs, and gnats ...

There has been a small, but growing trend among some musicians and bands to refuse to play in Israel because ...

A ten-year-old boy shot his father to death two weeks ago. The father was a politically active neo-Nazi, who was ...

Earlier this week, Molly Birnbaum wrote about her first writing teacher and the scent of Passover. She has been blogging all week ...

Not sure if you’ve heard by now, but the United States killed Osama Bin Laden last week. A couple of ...

Molly Birnbaum is the author of Season to Taste: How I Lost my Sense of Smell and Found My Way. ...

“As regards scholars, the older they become the more wisdom they acquire…But as regards the ignorant, the older they become, ...

Maybe, just maybe, the East Coast is coming out of winter. Yesterday, I had to wear a sweatshirt to work ...

Now I did not know this but if you were to visit Arlington National Cemetery, there are three seperate plaques ...

“My creatures are drowning in the sea, and you want to sing?” – Babylonian Talmud Megillah 10bIt took less than ...

Yesterday was Yom Hashoah. And while our blog had minimal coverage of the day, that doesn’t mean that people around ...

Sometimes when I need to laugh I search for Jewish in Google News. Often I get boring articles about Israel, ...