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The Jewish Body

A controversy erupts over whether an Orthodox woman, who covers her hair with a wig for religious reasons, should be ...

Travelling On A Prayer

Everyday I take the Long Island Rail Road to work, although it is not ideal to daven (pray) on the ...

Who is Paying?

Jacob Berkman, over at The Fundermentalist, asks an ethical question about a topic that isn’t addressed enough–excessive spending in the ...

Saudi Treifa Banquet

Ari Alexander is guest blogging (via Blackberry) from the World Conference on Dialogue in Madrid, organized by the Muslim World ...

The Rabbi Roundtable

Recently I experienced an interesting situation: a rabbi roundtable.A group of college students part of a summer internship program, sat ...

More Problems for Agriprocessors

Good public relations is crucial for companies in crisis. And many PR firms will go pretty far to make their ...

Uri L’Tzedek: Boycott Over

Uri L’Tzedek’s call for a boycott of Agriprocessors is officially over. For now. In recent weeks, Agriprocessors retained James Martin, ...

Kosher Elk Anyone?

Yesterday the JTA reported that kosher elk meat will soon be available to the public. After more than six years ...

Embracing the Lace Doily

I wanted to respond to a critique of a blog post of mine by Rabbi Jill Jacobs over at Jspot.First ...

Wanted: Hot Rabbis.

Earlier this week, another Jewish blog wrote about this story, which reports on the growing absence of men in the ...

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