Beliefs & Practices

When Frum Satire showed me In Over Our Heads — billed as “the first unscripted Jewish reality television series” — ...

So I was planning on writing a pretty lighthearted post about this amazing website called SameSexShidduch.com. I mean, as long ...

I wrote my first novel standing in Herman Wouk’s shadow. Literally: I was in college at the George Washington University ...

I got in a little bit of trouble the other day. We have been working closely with Brooklyn filmmaker Jason ...

I’ve been reading a book about Messianic Judaism in order to write an article for MJL, and jeesh is it ...

Rabbi Yochanan once became ill, and Rabbi Hanina went to visit him. He asked him, “Are your sufferings welcome to ...

My best friend sent me this parody video, Brokeback Beit Midrash. As you might expect, it’s a parody of Brokeback ...

So far this week, Dani Shapiro wrote about moving from Jewish N.Y. to churchy Connecticut and how to find Jews ...

On Monday, Dani Shapiro wrote about moving from Jewish NY to churchy Connecticut. In many ways, our move from the ...

Dani Shapiro is the author of the memoir Devotion. She will be blogging all week for the Jewish Book Council and ...

This morning I got an email from my friend Dugans (of the awesome band Dreams in Static) asking, “Hey, isn’t ...

“Where does God exist?” the rebbe asked several of his followers. “Everywhere,” the surprised disciples responded. “No,” the rebbe answered. ...