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A New Haggadah to Get Excited About
Guess what? The Maxwell House Haggadah is being reissued this year, and it’s new and improved…but let’s face it, probably ...
Wise Fridays: Abolish Wars
“It is hard to do justice to the originality of men who, in the eighth century BCE, untutored by the ...
Win a Gorgeous Jewish Cookbook!
Here at MJL we are very proud of our frequent contributor and generally awesome friend Leah Koenig, whose cookbook, The ...
Cantillation Survey
If you’ve been to a few different Torah services you’ve probably noticed that everyone who chants from the Torah has ...
LimmudNY: The Responsibility of the Teacher
When you’re attending four or five sessions a day at a conference like LimmudNY, you start to compile an internal ...
LimmudNY: Let’s Not Muddy This Up With Jewish Texts
So I just went to my first session here at LimmudNY 2011. It was called Relationships and Sexuality Consumerist Culture ...
Wise Fridays:
“Do not say, ‘Why should I lessen my own fortune by giving my money to this poor person?’ Bear in ...
Teaching Civil Rights to Jews
Many of us know that Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel walked with Martin Luther King Jr. at the Selma Civil Rights ...
Debbie Friedman, Bringing Communities Together
NPR did a nice piece about the death this weekend of Debbie Friedman, a musician whose music impacted thousands and ...
Don’t Steal Torahs
If you’re thinking that’s pretty obvious, good for you. If you’re thinking, “Hey, why the heck not?” you’re a lot ...