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Shabbat is starting earlier and earlier. Someone please stop the sun. It is on a reign of terror that I ...

Rabbi Judah ben Tabai said: If anyone had said to me before I entered high office, “Assume that office,” my ...

This season, New York City Opera brought back on stage the late Hugo Weisgall’s Esther, a contemporary work based on ...

Two weeks ago in Parashat Vayera we read about how Abraham and Sarah were really stellar hosts, and on MJL ...

The Yankees win! The Yankees win! Oh, I’m sorry. That would be in the “Worst of the Week.” Quick rant: ...

David Ostow, the comic artist behind So Punk Rock (And Other Ways to Disappoint Your Mother), and his sister, Micol ...

Some editor over at FunnyorDie.com must have gone to Jewish day school. There is no other explanation as to why ...

In her last posts, Ellen Frankel looked at how to make the Bible PG and asked “What is Jewish Literature?”In ...

Of all the gigs I’ve ever had, this had to be the most extreme. And I wasn’t even there. To ...

Ellen Frankel is the author of the JPS Illustrated Children’s Bible, as well as the Editor-in-Chief and CEO of the ...