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Say It Ain’t So
Please please please please please say this isn’t true.An anti-Semitic blog is claiming that Sarah Palin is *gasp* Jewish.Normally, you ...
A Shark’s Tale 2: The New Testament
So it turns out it’s not impossible. According to the recently published edition of the Journal of Fish Biology, there ...
What We Leave Behind
During Yom Kippur services this year, I came up with the best praying strategy I’ve ever had, I think. It’s ...
Why Didn’t the Chicken Get to Cross the Road?
It’s that time of year again. That time when I can’t decide whether to stand with my holy-but-barbaric brothers and ...
A Mitzvah that goes beyond borders
Our good friends at the Jewish Publication Society have recently published a fantastic new book. Since WWII, Jewish armed servicemen/women ...
Pondering Historical Questions
Rabbi David Ellenson gives a broad historical overview on “How Modernity Changed Judaism�. (Institute for Global Jewish Affairs) A memoir ...
Asking Forgiveness
I don’t know about you, but I’m constantly haunted.It might just be my social awkwardness speaking (because, really, when’s the ...
Joe Six Pack and the Jews
Unless your internet is down and you don’t have cable (a quick shout out to my brother), you know that ...
An Issue with Lubavitch
The new issue of the Jewish college student magazine New Voices just released its new issue, focusing on the world ...
Rosenberg rehash
With the recent news about Julius and Ethel Rosenberg that one of them of them was innocent — and that, ...
The Fast of Gedaliah
Answer us, God, on this day of fasting, because we are in great pain. This morning, when I read the ...
“Rosh Hashana” is a nicer way of saying Screwing Up Less Often
Oh, yeah — we hit it again. Two parking tickets this morning, and one’s more than $100. Man, this Rosh ...