Mixed Multitudes

My quest for Harry Potter news continues. As I noted in my blog yesterday, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, ...

The Shabazi shul in LA has “no sign and no front door.…The Shema prayer … is … not a melody. ...

Last week, NPR’s “Heard on the Street” featured a “debate” between Jew for Jesus Larry Dubin and Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld ...

I don’t want to judge people who have been traumatized by Holocaust-survivor parents, but I’m not sure I can help ...

The frenzy has finally hit me. After seeing, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix this weekend (in 3-D, ...

Pointing out that “The Golan … has been Israeli for 40 years, double the time it was in Syria’s hands..… ...

A story came across my desk today discussing the fact that Jewish newspapers are fighting to stay alive in a ...

Today, the Very Short List featured a new graphic novel — Exit Wounds, by Rutu Modan — that takes place ...

Now is the time to strike a deal with the Palestinians, says Yossi Beilin, because “the Palestinians have a pragmatic ...

After my post yesterday, we were talking in the office about the different intentions behind the rules of kashrut.What eventually ...

“Games, projects, songs and sometimes relay races,” makes Maryland-based JEWEL Hebrew School appear to be similar to its peers. However, ...

Yesterday, for the second time in a week, Pope Benedict XVI reversed positions of the Second Vatican Council, which in ...