Outreach!

By yschwartz October 8, 2010

“No, really, please, seriously, explain to me the difference!” The fireworks were flying in a meeting staged last week at Yale Hillel prefacing the search for a new Orthodox campus rabbi. Yale Hillel, like many Hillels across the country, are in a state of change, shifting and adapting to make room for new priorities, and…

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From “Community” to the World

By Carly Silver October 8, 2010

Since E!’s The Soup premiered a few years back, I’ve enjoyed watching thirty-something comic Joel McHale give Hollywood stars slaps-upside-the-head for being idiots. I’ve recently gotten into Community, a comedy on NBC about a disbarred lawyer who has to return to community college to get his degree, starring McHale. Like everywhere else, the issue of…

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And sometimes it means being excluded…

By David A.M. Wilensky October 8, 2010

I wrote recently that the holiest day of the University of Texas year and the holiest day of the Jewish year would coincide next fall when the Red River Rivalry (the big game to end all big games) will be played on Yom Kippur. One story I somehow missed until now about this was an…

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The Reading List: Why did Norman Mailer hate masturbation?

By Ben Sales October 8, 2010

Like the dwindling Christine O’Donnell, he condemned self-flagellation, but back then no one cared… kind of like no one cared about his mayoral candidacy. An amusing article from the Forward. [Forward MitzVote] Speaking of masturbation, the very Jewish Columbia  University ranks number one in terms of sexual health! [PR Newswire] Speaking of smart Jews, well, there are lots…

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