Practices
The Do-It-Yourself Prayerbook
Patrick Aleph is the lead singer of the Southern Jewish punk band Can!!Can and a former employee of Modern Tribe ...
Marriage by Shoe
I usually don’t have any trouble believing impossible things, before breakfast or at any other time. But here’s today’s inscrutable ...
How Do Jews Clear Tables?
Here at MJL we’ve seen how Jews eat, but my friend Leah Jones over at Accidentally Jewish has a great ...
Keeping Kosher in New Zealand
I know very few things about New Zealand. I know that they have a ton of sheep. More sheep than ...
Wise Fridays: Mind Your Own Business
“Most people are concerned with their own material well-being and their neighbor’s soul. Better that they worry about their own ...
Would You Wash for Me?
According to Jewish law, before one eats bread, one is required to wash one’s hands, say the blessing for bread, ...
Synagogues in the News
The experimental Nashuva (“We will return”) Friday night service involves “a band, meditation, reinterpreted prayers on a handout sheet, and ...
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 ...
Kosher Texting
Sometimes I’ll see a link to a website and just assume that it will be terrible. And most of the ...
Never Met Peter Chamor
I got a pretty strange text today: “What is Peter Chamor? And why are donkeys dressed up?” Obviously, my response ...