Beliefs & Practices
Muslim American Leadership
Ari Alexander is guest blogging (via Blackberry) from the World Conference on Dialogue in Madrid, organized by the Muslim World ...
Bahraini Bus Bonding
Ari Alexander is guest blogging (via Blackberry) from the World Conference on Dialogue in Madrid, organized by the Muslim World ...
Teachers and Tradition
Over at his blog, Rabbi Andy Bachman has posted a beautiful tribute to his teacher, the late Rabbi A. Stanley ...
Dissertation on Louis Jacobs
Anyone who has spent time on MyJewishLearning.com knows that we have a lot of articles by the late Rabbi Louis ...
Kosher Elk Anyone?
Yesterday the JTA reported that kosher elk meat will soon be available to the public. After more than six years ...
Embracing the Lace Doily
I wanted to respond to a critique of a blog post of mine by Rabbi Jill Jacobs over at Jspot.First ...
The Pursuit of Happiness
This week Newsweek features an article called “Does Having Kids Make You Happy?”The author gives a list of experts, surveys, ...
Oh To Be Prince Caspian
The temptation to read Judaism into pop culture is great. There is a popular Hebrew High School curiculum based on ...
Better than a list of thank yous.
I saw this Bar Mitzvah speech video a few weeks ago. It’s one of the most profound things I’ve heard ...
Religion in America
Today’s New York Times reported more findings from a recent Pew study on religion in America, with attention to the ...
Sacrifice
Since the destruction of the Temples, Jews have struggled with the enduring meaning and legacy of the sacrificial rites.