Life

Recently, a friend’s father died suddenly, and I found out a few days later through a mass email that one ...

I haven’t written much about actually saying Kaddish in the past few months, partially because it has become so much ...

This past weekend both of my sisters came into town and we had a little Vixen Shabbaton (get it? Foxes…vixens…?). ...

There’s a fascinating back-and-forth over at The Atlantic between Jeffrey Goldberg and Ta-Nehisi about exoticism and intermarriage in the black ...

A new site, TransTorah, was just launched, offering resources for trans and transitioning Jews along with divrei Torah, and resources ...

I’ve been dreaming about my mother a lot recently. A while back I wrote about how I’m not one of ...

In Denmark, a bill was proposed which would prohibit the circumcision of any men before the age of 15. Ynet ...

Just last week I was thinking about eulogies and funerals, and of course here at MJL we have a number ...

There are extensive rules for giving a eulogy, and we touch on them in our article on eulogies, though it’s ...

Dr. Eliezer Schnall is an assistant professor of clinical psychology at Yeshiva College of Yeshiva University in New York, and ...