Beliefs & Practices

I mean, when isn’t it the season for repentance?On Friday, I posted, what I thought was a somewhat humorous video ...

There are things your parents do to you when you’re too young to protest—like give you a bowl cut—that you ...

This week the Jewish Channel covers a few Jewish stories in its weekly update, including the official appointment of Sara ...

There is no life without a task; no person without a talent; no place without a fragment of God’s light ...

SPOILER ALERT: If you watch Lost, and have not seen last night’s episode, “He’s Our You,” yet, go watch it, ...

Today is Rosh Chodesh, the beginning of the Hebrew month and the festival of the New Moon. Jews celebrate by ...

Alan Jay Sufrin and Miriam Brosseau form Stereo Sinai, a self-described “biblegum pop” band based in Chicago, IL. This week, ...

Last night a friend of mine really upset me. I know it wasn’t intentional, but she said something that sent ...

I love heist movies (Bank Job, Inside Man, Ocean’s 11 etc) and heist books (The Great Train Robbery and anything ...

Hand-written scrawl on a bright orange piece of photocopy paper hanging on the street in Crown Heights: ADAR IS NOTOVER ...

It makes me insane when people say, “Hey, I know this Orthodox person who does X, so it must be ...

Things have been pretty busy at MJL this week, so I haven’t been able to blog about some of the ...