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I have an admitted bias towards anything related to Aramaic. My dad studies modern Aramaic, and one of my best ...

Tomorrow is December 4, and you know what that means — in the traditional prayer service, we switch from saying ...

In the mid-’90s, Israeli television personality Gil Kopatch brought Rabbi Mordechai Gafni on his sports/talk/news show to discuss the weekly ...

JTA is currently featuring an article about the challenge of choosing a name for a Jewish baby, so I thought ...

During the summer of 2007 I was a fellow at the first summer of Yeshivat Hadar, an intensive 8-week egalitarian ...

I am unabashedly overjoyed about Fearless, the new Taylor Swift album.  It is freakishly good.  And I’m not the only ...

The ever-lovin’ Esther Kustanowitz just alerted us to the brilliant Facebook of Genesis, in which God…uh, adds a dude named ...

Last night I got a call from a student at the University of Iowa asking me to give some money ...

One of my biggest pet peeves is when people mispronounce Hebrew words, especially when the person in question is leading ...

That’s right — the next time you don’t like someone, tell them Lekh lekha. That’s what G-d told Abraham, who ...