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Wise Fridays: What You Have a Right To

“You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.” —Rose Schneiderman Find more Wise Fridays ...

Beginnings: Jewels of Elul

I decided to be Orthodox in the middle of college. I was on scholarship to a very big school, and ...

Some Amar’e Conclusions (Finally)

I don’t need to go over all the details of the Amar’e Stoudemire being Jewish claims (you can read all ...

Wise Fridays: Judaism Can Save Your Life

“Judaism, done right, has the power to save your life from being spent entirely on the trivial…But it can do ...

Wise Fridays: Heaven and Land

“Each people has as much heaven over its head as it has land under its feet. ” —Hayim Nahman Bialik ...

The Future of Orthodox Technology

A few weeks ago, Talia Davis wrote to a bunch of Jewish techy and thinky folks and asked us what ...

Where Hasidim Went Wrong

Arthur Green, rector of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College, just published an article in the Forward on how Hasidim ...

Praising God? There’s An App For That

I don’t have an iPhone, so I don’t find myself downloading tons of apps. However, I do have an iPod ...

The Rebbe and the Forty-Nine Hipsters

Last week, I told you how the Biala Rebbe was coming to our house. And I’ve gotten a bunch of ...

Wise Fridays: Time and Money

“Told that a certain man had acquired great wealth, a sage asked: ‘Has he also acquired the days in which ...

Meeting the Rebbe

Tomorrow night, we’ll be hosting the Biala Rebbe of Jerusalem, Rabbi Avraham Yerachmiel Rabinowicz, in our house. Some of our ...

The Biggest Cemetery in the World

Yesterday, Joshua Cohen told us how to write a book like Coney Island. His new novel, Witz, is now available. ...

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