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Lay Kodesh
Yesterday I blogged about JOI’s Big Tent Judaism initiative. As I got to thinking more about problem of being welcoming ...
Jews in Far-Flung Places
-Myanmar’s 20 remaining Jews fear for their small community. (Ynet)-The Jewish life in Taiwan, one dominated by Syrian Jews, is ...
Refusing to Play
Iranian-born German soccer player Ashkan Dejagah is making headlines for electing to skip his team’s upcoming match in Tel Aviv. ...
Big Tent Judaism
This week, Rabbi Kerry Olitzky of the Jewish Outreach Institute, along with Rabbi Elliot Dorf of the American Jewish University, ...
I’d like to buy a vowel
This past weekend, Jews began, once again, to read the Torah cycle. As most people know, the Torah scroll itself ...
Action Figures
Guest blogger Rabbi Jennifer Krause is the author of The Answer: Making Sense of Life, One Question at a Time.With ...
A Map Quest
Prior to the High Holidays, the New York Board of Rabbis previewed its official Jewish New York History and Heritage ...
Israeli Zeitgeist
-The 2007 “Corruption Perceptions Index” shows a modest improvement for Israel over 2006. (Haaretz) -The latest survey of Israeli attitudes ...
Contemporary Ketubot
MJL contributing writer Jessica Kraft has just launched a website featuring the contemporary ketubot that she designs for soon-to-be married ...
I’m only going to do this once
Lots has been put out there in the Jewish world (particularly the blogging community) about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit ...
Gaza & Sderot
-Moshe Elad argues that cutting off Gaza electricity would give the Palestinians a propaganda bonanza: “every natural death of an ...