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Those of you who spent your Saturday night glued to the boob-tube may have seen a mysterious talis on the tele-waves. No, you weren’t drunk. Anne Hathway hosted Saturday Night Live this week, and one of the skits boasted a talis as a wall hanging. In case you don’t want to sit through an otherwise […]
Duke University sophomore Samantha Tropper interviews Matisyahu as he prepares for a concert on campus, Here are the Hasidic beat-boxer’s thoughts on Jewish identity, aliyah and writing lyrics by the grave of a rabbi.
Crossposted to The Reform Schuckle I’ve been bemoaning my singleness a lot lately. People keep telling me to try online stuff, but it seems odd to do online dating while in college. Now, however, I’m taking the plunge. I went on JDate a few minutes ago to see what’s what. I clicked on “BROWSE FOR […]
In a blog I wrote a while back, I recalled the famed career of Thoroughbred horse racing trainer Bobby Frankel. Recently, I came across a report, written last year, about a jockey, David Cohen, who is one of the few Jewish riders in the horse racing game. Why are there so few Jews as riders […]
I was recently forwarded a Youtube video that was made from the program that lets you create cartoons by simply typing dialogue. It is very entertaining and worth a watch, but for those who don’t have time, or have difficulty bending their ears around the computerized reproduction of ashkenazic pronunciations of Jewish legal and exegetical […]
• Yale Hillel is eagerly awaiting mass exodus to Harvard this weekend for THE GAME. In other news, the Slifka Center for Jewish Life has instituted a new “Slifka Fellows” program, in which some of Yale’s most popular professors will eat regularly with students in the kosher kitchen. (Yale) • Critically acclaimed author Mark Steyn […]
At the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in New Orleans, one in four delegates was a student. Over 600 students came in total—a high for the conference—and 44 of those were from the Hillel Jewish University Center (JUC) of Pittsburgh. Though attendance was clearly high on the student front, students were […]
It may be time for San Francisco’s mohels to, ahem, cut and run from the City by the Bay. I’ve been reading the various, uh, clips and snippets on the proposed circumcision ban and criminalization and I am outraged! (not really) OK, silly puns aside (promise, I fulfilled my prurient adolescent urges), I am feeling […]
According to a Forward article, J Street U affiliate Just Peace did withdraw its sponsorship of UNRWA Gaza Director John Ging’s speech at Columbia. [Forward] Call me cheesy, but I think this is what we need in order to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [Indexed] Volunteering, conviction and partying: 600 students at the GA. [JTA Telegraph] […]
Being constantly surrounded by texts, and basing the vast majority of my education this term at Pardes on those texts, has made me think a lot about issues of how we understand texts. Specifically, I have reflected on just how much is lost from a traditional Jewish text (Chumash, Talmud, etc.) when it is read […]