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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 ...
Jews Around the World
Cuba’s Jewish community has rebounded from its low, thanks in part to several dozen converts of Cubans with Jewish roots, ...
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, ...
Activism & Gender Issues in Israel
Three Jerusalem women from Orthodox, Conservative and Reform streams of Judaism in Israel have launched the transdenominational “Kehillat Tzedek, a ...
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 ...
The Shrinking Diaspora
Recently I heard Sammy Samuels, one of 20 Jews in left Myanmar speak about his homeland and how he made ...
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 ...
Sarkozy (and Suicide) in Israel
Some wild and unfortunate events ended French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit to Israel today. An Israeli official says a policeman ...
Religion in America
Today’s New York Times reported more findings from a recent Pew study on religion in America, with attention to the ...
