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Holocaust in the News
A potential convert finds himself “never able to connect emotionally with the Nazi genocide as so many of my fellow ...
Faster, Faster: Asara B’Tevet
Today is the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Tevet, and as such is a minor fast day. You ...
Taqwacore wisdom
All weekend I’ve continued my obsession with Michael Muhammad Knight’s book The Taqwacores, which follows a bunch of young Muslim ...
Kaddish: It’s Different for a Girl
I haven’t written much about actually saying Kaddish in the past few months, partially because it has become so much ...
Depression and Prayer
A few years ago, right about the time I was becoming religious, I started getting hit with Seasonal Affective Disorder. ...
Matisyahu: Return of the “King”
Although I can’t actually remember whether he played “King Without a Crown,” that iconoclastic first single that a friend swore ...
Israeli Government Twitters the War
It’s mostly PR, but it’s a kind of PR that the Israeli government hasn’t historically shown the capability to produce ...
The Holocaust, the First War in Lebanon, and Gaza Today
Last night a friend and I went to go see Waltz With Bashir, the animated Israeli film about memories of ...
Do Apples Even Grow in Germany?
Herman Rosenblatt has become famous for his amazing story of how he met his wife. He claimed that while he ...