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Beliefs & Practices, Clothing & Appearance
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.
Jewish History, Mixed Multitudes, Study
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 ...
Jewish History, Mixed Multitudes, Study
Morbid Jews
The other night I went to an Emerging Jewish Writers panel/reading as part of the Steinhardt Jewish Heritage Festival. The ...
Jewish History, Mixed Multitudes, Study
David Duke & Intermarriage
The Forward is reporting that David Duke gave another antisemitic speech at his favorite Ukrainian university last week. “The Jewish ...
Eat, Israeli Food, Jewish Recipes
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 ...
Antisemitism & Bigotry, Disability, Jewish Law, Jewish Texts, Keshet, Study, Talmud
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 ...