Mixed Multitudes

As promised, though a week late, my latest column for the Jerusalem Post is a retrospective about Jerusalem Prize winner ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about super-atheist Richard Dawkins’ assertion that the move from polytheism to monotheism shouldn’t necessarily ...

The New York Times has released its annual list of the Top 10 books of the year, and Gary Shteyngart’s ...

The Jewish Press just published a poignant (and sad) letter from an Orthodox Jewish man about his struggles with homosexuality. ...

Looks like American Jews aren’t the only ones who spend the aftermath of an election counting how many Jews were ...

Is Michael Richards Jewish? That’s the question that was on too-many Jews’ minds after Seinfeld‘s Kramer went on his recent ...

Good book criticism has been virtually exiled from the popular press, and the New York Times Book Review — which ...

This morning, I blogged about the poetry of Taha Muhammad Ali and his translator, Peter Cole. In July, I wrote ...

Thanks to Jewschool for highlighting this amazing video of poet Taha Muhammad Ali at the Dodge Poetry Festival earlier this ...

The Jerusalem Post reports:Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Waldenberg, one of the most respected halachic authorities of the modern era and a ...

It’s Thanksgiving reading time. And for us at MJL, that’s got to start with David Koffman’s fascinating article about the ...

Our homepage this week features an article about the Karaites, a sect of Judaism that rejected the authority of the ...