Beliefs & Practices

A few years ago, right about the time I was becoming religious, I started getting hit with Seasonal Affective Disorder. ...

Last night a friend and I went to go see Waltz With Bashir, the animated Israeli film about memories of ...

Motherlode, the parenting blog at NYTimes.com, has a really interesting post with a new twist on the age-old problem of ...

I’m dying to see the new Meryl Streep movie, Doubt, about a nun with a bone to pick, but in ...

There’s a fascinating back-and-forth over at The Atlantic between Jeffrey Goldberg and Ta-Nehisi about exoticism and intermarriage in the black ...

There was a really cute baby in the MJL office today, and it got us talking about baby names and ...

A new site, TransTorah, was just launched, offering resources for trans and transitioning Jews along with divrei Torah, and resources ...

From today’s emailbox:When you think of G_d, do you think of an “entity” (I know it’s not the right word, ...

Check out this fascinating article in The Guardian about all of the letters that people send to God, often addressed ...

Last Friday night, my sister was at a friend’s house for dinner. They had a filling Shabbat meal, sat around ...

Last night I attended The Kosher Quandary: Ethics and Kashruth, which was the inaugural event of Yeshiva University’s new student ...

Salon is featuring a question about someone who doesn’t want to let shomer Shabbat people into her building: Dear Cary, ...