Mixed Multitudes
Name Your Favorite Old Synagogue, Win an iPad
Here’s one way that you can help out a historic synagogue — and help yourself in the process!Congregation Beth Elohim, ...
Yom Ha’atzmaut, Motorcycles Included
Tomorrow is Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day! To celebrate, we thought we’d share this mini-documentary we filmed one year at ...
Jonathan Safran Foer on the Haggadah
It seems like the whole world is afire with Jonathan Safran Foer’s new haggadah, which he’s been planning since at ...
MJL is Hiring!
Calling all smart, talented, writerly, computer-savvy, and unemployed people! MyJewishLearning.com is on the hunt for an Editorial Assistant to join ...
Showdown at the Co-Op
So, um, yeah. The coop last night. Utter craziness.First, a recap from the The Daily Show: The Daily Show with ...
Breaking Bad Habits
“It is too late to prepare when temptation is actually at hand.” Rabbi Yitzchak Meir of GerSometimes you find yourself ...
Stereo Sinai Learn to Skate
Our friends Stereo Sinai — who we’ve gushed about on Jewniverse, and who you can pick up a free mp3 ...
Shabbat: A Cure for Busyness
As I write this, I am simultaneously:1. Compulsively checking my email, Twitter, and Facebook. 2. Waiting for an “important” text ...
Harry Potter Talks Jewish Day Schools
This is hilarious: Imagine there’s a Jewish day school called Chagwartz. And imagine that their biggest donor, Lucius Malfoyberg, suddenly ...
Footnote: Finally a Movie that Understands Academia
It’s tough out there for an Israeli film at the Oscars. When an Israeli film gets nominated for best foreign ...
Oprah and the Hasidic Ladies
Tonight, OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network, is airing the second part in its “Hasidic Jews of Brooklyn” special. Oprah visits ...
Deciding How We Fit into Jewish Day School
Earlier this week, the AVI CHAI Foundation together with the Steinhardt Foundation posed a question to the Jewish community: What ...