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The Dual Loyalty Question
Looks like American Jews aren’t the only ones who spend the aftermath of an election counting how many Jews were ...
Michael Richards: Kind of Jewish
Is Michael Richards Jewish? That’s the question that was on too-many Jews’ minds after Seinfeld‘s Kramer went on his recent ...
Important Poetry
Thanks to Jewschool for highlighting this amazing video of poet Taha Muhammad Ali at the Dodge Poetry Festival earlier this ...
Chabad Messianism
Messianism in Chabad-Lubavitch challenges Jews of all denominations to consider the limits of Jewish theology.
Remembering Rabbi Waldenberg
The Jerusalem Post reports:Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Waldenberg, one of the most respected halachic authorities of the modern era and a ...
Native Americans & Jews
It’s Thanksgiving reading time. And for us at MJL, that’s got to start with David Koffman’s fascinating article about the ...
Karaites at the GA
Our homepage this week features an article about the Karaites, a sect of Judaism that rejected the authority of the ...
Leo Baeck on God, Halakha
In anticipation of Leo Baeck’s 50th yahrzeit on Sunday, I’d like to highlight a few other aspects of his thought. ...
Jewcy is Born
There’s a new kid on the Jewish media block. This week, while the older generation was in LA listening to ...
God at the GA
I heard God mentioned approximately 26 times at the GA and all 26 came during the same speech: Rabbi Naomi ...
Bibi’s Coke
On Monday, at the United Jewish Communities General Assembly, after Benjamin Netanyahu finished his Iran fright-fest, veteran Canadian politician Irwin ...
Dogma & Intolerance
This week, MyJewishLearning looks back on the life and thought of Leo Baeck, a theologian whose name graces many institutions ...