Mixed Multitudes

Slate asks the question on everyone’s mind: “If male martyrs can expect to find 72 virgin maidens in paradise when ...

Today is Shushan Purim, the day Purim is celebrated in cities that were “walled” at the time of Joshua. Most ...

In 2000, Harvard professor Ruth Wisse published The Modern Jewish Canon, a book that surveys two centuries of Jewish literature, ...

Well, Ron Jeremy certainly, and on Beliefnet you can find a new interview in which the porn star discusses his ...

Purim’s coming and it’s time to have some fun! Here are some terrific websites with lots of activities for kids:  ...

In the mood for an old-fashioned Yiddish Western?Click here to watch a short film called The Cowboy. Here’s some background on ...

Philip Roth has another award for his trophy case. The AP reports: Philip Roth has won yet another literary prize, ...

For those of you in the New York area looking for something to do tomorrow night (Feb 27), I’ll be ...

Today’s New York Times looks at the latest battle over the Middle East on college campuses: a documentary film, Obsesssion: ...

Hirhurim’s Gil Student has just published a review in the Jewish Press of Imrei Baruch (The Sayings of Baruch), a ...

A few weeks ago, I blogged about Walter Benjamin, the great German Jewish intellectual, whose writings have become canonical in ...

The latest installment of Adeena Sussman’s MJL food column “The Inspired Kitchenâ€? is now available. The newest recipe: Mandelbrot – the ...