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Jewish Ritual Objects: A Guide

From challah covers to yahrzeit candles, what they are used for, how they look and where you can find them.

Israel & Syria

-Turkey is readying efforts to get Israel-Syria talks underway. (Haaretz)-Looking at the substantial domestic opposition to a deal with Syria ...

Mensch Madness 2016 Begins!

Every March, the ISJL (a very sports-centric Southern and Jewish office) holds a tournament of champions: Mensch Madness.We get in ...

Taking the Bat out of Batman

“The Messiah will come only when he is no longer necessary.”–Franz Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes.In the up coming, and probably ...

The Best Jewish Food Items At Target 

I mean, they kind of have everything.

Morbid Jews

The other night I went to an Emerging Jewish Writers panel/reading as part of the Steinhardt Jewish Heritage Festival. The ...

David Duke & Intermarriage

The Forward is reporting that David Duke gave another antisemitic speech at his favorite Ukrainian university last week. “The Jewish ...

Israeli Food

Israelis have developed and continue to enjoy a delicious cuisine rooted in the uniqueness of Israeli society itself.

Achieving Shalom

Commonly defined as peace, hello and goodbye, Shalom cannot simply be translated and then understood by its English description. In ...

Take a Stand: Don’t Let Religion Become a Weapon

In Pirkei Avot 2:10 we are taught that Rabbi Eliezer said, יהי כבוד חברך חביב עליך כשלך “Let your neighbor’s dignity be precious ...

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