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A.J. Jacobs, right, at the roastery where they roast his local coffee: the Joe Coffee Company in Brooklyn, New York. He is pictured with the plant’s roaster and taster. (Courtesy of Jacobs/via JTA)
October 18, 2018, 3:06 am
A.J. Jacobs traveled the world to thank everyone who helped make his cup of joe
Manhattan-based humorist and author ended up thanking over 1,000 people, from farmers to steel workers, involved in making sure he was able to have his morning coffee
By Cindy Sher
Rabbi Benny Lau. (Courtesy)
July 15, 2018, 2:16 pm
Launching in English, chapter-a-day project looks to bring Bible back to masses
Rabbi Benny Lau says 929’s daily study program intends to build bridges between Diaspora Jewry and Israel using their common heritage
By David Sedley
Harvey M. Lederman
July 6, 2018, 6:40 pm
Harvey M. Lederman
The Jewish angle for this triathlete
If my motivation flags, I think of Maimonides and his scorn for those who don’t exercise
Mark Cooper
June 22, 2018, 7:06 pm
Mark Cooper
I don’t care what the Bible says
Sure, let’s reform Immigration, but not by weaponizing biblical verses to justify a policy of separating families
Mara Benjamin
June 22, 2018, 2:44 pm
Mara Benjamin
The desecration at the US border
Separating parents and children severs the cord tethering people to their own humanity and to God
Marcy Oster
June 15, 2018, 3:51 pm
Marcy Oster
It’s raining in Israel, but I’m not relieved
There are agricultural reasons why summer rain is bad here, but it’s the spiritual significance that has me losing sleep
Children sitting at the Park East Synagogue, a Modern Orthodox congregation in New York City, March 3, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images, via JTA)
June 14, 2018, 5:05 am
Study: Young Jews are just as religious as their parents
Pew Research Center survey finds younger Christians and Muslims are less religious than their elders
By JTA
David Brooks speaks onstage at the The New Yorker Festival 2014 on October 19, 2014, in New York City. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for The New Yorker/via JTA)
June 13, 2018, 7:56 am
David Brooks opens up about his Jewish and Christian ‘bisexuality’
Well-known Jewish New York Times columnist speaks about his lifetime learning from, and flirting with, Christian ideas
By Charles Dunst
Novelist Michael Chabon, shown with his sponsor, Tamara Cohn Eskenazi, received an honorary doctorate and gave an address at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion commencement ceremonies in Los Angeles, May 14, 2018. (Hebrew Union College/Twitter)
June 11, 2018, 3:19 pm
Michael Chabon envisions a world without Jews
The novelist’s increasingly mainstream views on intermarriage are morally abhorrent
By Sylvia Barack Fishman, Steven M. Cohen and Jack Wertheimer
During an outing in 1922, Walter Hollander (third from left) with friends (public domain)
May 23, 2018, 3:49 am
Who was Anne Frank’s gay Uncle Walter?
After being imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, Walter Hollander fled Germany. Once settled in Massachusetts, he attempted to help the Frank family flee Europe
By Matt Lebovic
Bill Slott
March 11, 2018, 2:36 pm
Bill Slott
Are Karaites more Jewish than Jews?
If Moses arrived in a time machine, he’d surely recognize more Karaite practices than rabbinic ones
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
March 9, 2018, 1:24 pm
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Who still sees the wonder of Judaism?
Religion is the art of knowing what to do with amazement and how to protect it from complacency
Johnny Solomon
February 15, 2018, 12:32 pm
Johnny Solomon
Jewish law — far more than a dry, unbending code
Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo faults halacha handbooks for a lack of legal creativity; he misses the mark (review)
Gheula Canarutto Nemni
January 27, 2018, 7:07 am
Gheula Canarutto Nemni
Who likes Internat’l Holocaust Remembrance Day?
Plenty of Jews dislike the memorial day — they’d rather build life than wallow in death
Daniel Brenner
January 23, 2018, 3:31 pm
Daniel Brenner
Jewish men need to talk about #MeToo
Rejecting Harvey Weinstein, et al as role models is a no-brainer; having the conversation about sex and power is the challenge
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