Talmud-Made-Easy

February 10, 2005
Talmud for dummies: Brooklyn-based publisher ArtScroll/Mesorah has sunk $21 million into a new, 73-volume, easy English edition of the Talmud....

What's a Nice Jewish Girl to Do?

February 10, 2005
“How a beautiful, artistic, well-to-do Jewish girl became, by turns, a hippie and still later a fundamentalist Christian makes...

They Have What to Say?

August 9, 2004
Hamodia, America’s only English-language Jewish daily, was conceived as an antidote to mainstream press. For Stephen Vider, writing at Nextbook, it...

Judaism's Thriving Concern

June 22, 2004
“Today thousands of Chabad faithful are expected to gather in Queens, N.Y., at the grave of Rabbi Menachem M....

10 June 2004 Daily Links

June 10, 2004
8:44 pm: One of the bloggers at Not Perfection puts the events of the week in perspective. “I feel bad about Ronald...

jBlogs

April 4, 2004
Scholars, wonks, and rebbeles; mameles and makhers-in-their-own-minds; such are the denizens of jBlog (as the Jewish blogosphere is called)....

Shabbat Reading

April 3, 2004
Shabbat reading below; but first, a scooped report: Is muscular Christianity entering a new weight class? Yes — and...
Feature

Everybody's Jew

February 24, 2004
I Was a Passion News Source. By Laurel Snyder It’s a strange thing, the hunger for public statements, testimonials. Periodically, an important...

Prayer Maps

February 22, 2004
Pizza parlors, shipping offices, printing shops, jewelry shops — temples, all, as revealed by photographer Jaime Permuth‘s “Manhattan Mincha Map,”...

Ca-razy for Kabbalah

February 5, 2004
David Klinghoffer writes erudite but peculiar books. In one, he recalled his teenage self-circumcision as part of a “conversion” experience...

Judaism

November 30, 2003
Smart and/or Funny Forward originally “Forverts,” began life as a socialist Yiddish paper edited by the legendary Abraham Cahan, was...

The Education of Aviel Barclay

November 3, 2003
As Leah Eichler tells it in Moment, a Jewish monthly, the story of Aviel Barclay — poised to become the first woman to scribe...

Wicca Wacka

October 31, 2003
Halloween… time to bake the challah. Keren Engelberg, a contributing writer for The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, reports that...

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