Mixed Multitudes

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Celebrating Girls

According to Jewish Women’s Archive’s This Week in Jewish History, on March 14, 1977 the New York Times published an ...

Jewish Grammar: Nebbish

I’m not sure how I feel about the recent Jewcy article “Reclaiming the Nebbish,” in which Peter Hyman exhorts us ...

More Judaica

More on the new edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica: A series of topics have been expanded in the new encyclopedia: ...

Name That War

Reuters reports: Israel is trying to put a name to the war it waged against Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrillas last year, ...

Losing Their Religion

Thanks to FailedMessiah for pointing out a very interesting article in Biblical Archaeology Review in which Hershel Shanks interviews four ...

The Private Heschel

Susannnah Heschel has a wonderful article in the Jewish Week about her father, Abraham Joshua Heschel, in which she writes ...

Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)

Jean Baudrillard, the maddeningly-obscure, but prophetic, French philosopher died earlier this week at the age of 77.Baudrillard wasn’t Jewish. But ...

Morbid Jews

The other night I went to an Emerging Jewish Writers panel/reading as part of the Steinhardt Jewish Heritage Festival. The ...

Rashi Roundup

In the world of Jewish learning, understanding Rashi is one of the most basic—and the most difficult—skills you’ll have to ...

UJ Accepts Gay Rabbinical Students

As expected, the University of Judaism made the first practical move toward integrating the Conservative movement’s new responsum on homosexuality: ...

New Torah Commentaries

Thanks to our friends at American Jewish World Service and the Jewish Outreach Institute you can now read weekly Torah ...

Women of the Tribe

March is Jewish Women’s History Month. But really, shouldn’t every month be Jewish Women’s History Month? Every day of every ...

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