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How to Light the Menorah (And Look Damn Good While You’re Doing It)

Hanukkah’s gonna be here before you know it. So make sure you’re stocked up on all the holiday goods — ...

She’s So Frum She Davens In Her Sleep

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

Inter-racial Intermarriage: What’s Taboo and What’s Not

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 Letter Which Is Not Read

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

“Get off the Internet, it’s Shabbat!”

Last Friday night, my sister was at a friend’s house for dinner. They had a filling Shabbat meal, sat around ...

Jewish Surfers of the Internets vs Jewish Surfers of the Waves

I was really confused when I first saw the headline of this article from Ynet news: Haredi surfers interfering in ...

Hanukkah Giving…Squared

You know how Amazon (and its less evil compatriots) cuts off holiday shipping, what, like two weeks before Christmas starts? ...

The Kosher Quandary

Last night I attended The Kosher Quandary: Ethics and Kashruth, which was the inaugural event of Yeshiva University’s new student ...

Light Your Hanukkiah in Solidarity Against Terrorism–Or, You Know, Because of Hanukkah

Several people have forwarded me this email in the past two days:Dear Friends, Last Shabbat, in my sermon, I offered ...

Best Hanukkah Gifts 5769: Hierarchy of Beards

Scratchy, itchy, bestial, primordial, natural, cushiony, soft, sensitive, strokable. An instant aid for anyone so blessed with one who desires ...

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