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Wise Fridays: When Does God Lie?
Great is peace, seeing that for its sake even God modified the truth. –Babylonian Talmud Yevamot 65b Find more Wise ...
First Person Grief
Last year I wrote a lot about my experiences mourning for my mother. It was an intense and exhausting year, ...
What Does This Mean??
My best friend sent me this parody video, Brokeback Beit Midrash. As you might expect, it’s a parody of Brokeback ...
Your Ideal Celebrity Shabbat Dinner
Apparently Q-Tip is into observing Shabbat since he’s been filming Holy Rollers, a movie about Chassidic drug mules. Totally awesome, ...
Elena Kagan, Esther, and Being Outed as Jewish or Gay
So Elena Kagan is Obama’s nominee for Supreme Court Jusice, and I, for one, am elated. I love that there ...
The Ke$ha Bat Mitzvah Party
Have you ever watched one of those “Remembering the 80s” shows on VH1 where they look back at some of ...
Wise Fridays: Despite the Faults
Just as we love ourselves despite the faults we know we have, so should we love our neighbors despite the ...
Israeli Design and Typography
A standard element of a middle class Jewish child’s nursery is a poster of the Hebrew alphabet. (Remember the one ...
If I Were a Jewish Boy
This week my friend and I were discussing the pros and cons of being a guy vs being a lady. ...
Drake’s Bar Mitzvah
A couple months back, I mentioned how shocked I was that this blog never mentions Drake, one of the biggest ...