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I Hate Thanksgiving

Guest blogger Simcha Weinstein is the rabbi of the Pratt Institute. His latest book, Shtick Shift: Jewish Humor in the ...

You Sell Gay Priests?

I’m a big fan of religious controversy.  I like it when people stand up and say things that make any ...

Jews and Muslims Clash in…oh, never mind.

Here’s a nice little story in which religious people of different persuasions stick it to the man. No, even that ...

Anorexia in the Orthodox World

The Yeshiva University Observer — actually the official newspaper of Stern College, the women’s school — is a great snapshot ...

Going To Shul Is Good For You–An Interview With Dr. Eliezer Schnall

Dr. Eliezer Schnall is an assistant professor of clinical psychology at Yeshiva College of Yeshiva University in New York, and ...

Parashat Vayetzei Quiz

Test your knowledge of this Torah portion.

A Self-Hating Jews Double-Header

A sentence was handed out in the case of eight Israeli teenagers, members of a neo-Nazi gang, who beat up ...

Is Zach Braff Going to Make Aliyah?

Scrubs star Zach Braff is hanging out in Tel Aviv these days, and in an interview with Haaretz it sure ...

God Wants You To Get Laid (Or Eat Chocolate Cake)

I love this article in the New York Times about a pastor who told his congregation of some 20,000 people ...

On Racism

Last week, I blogged about the Jewish community’s (and particularly the Orthodox community’s) confrontation with residual racism (in light of ...

And the High Priest goes in for the field goal…

In the mid-’90s, Israeli television personality Gil Kopatch brought Rabbi Mordechai Gafni on his sports/talk/news show to discuss the weekly ...

A Baby By Any Other Name…

JTA is currently featuring an article about the challenge of choosing a name for a Jewish baby, so I thought ...

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