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There Is No Such Thing as Half

By Joanna Brooks | October 15, 2009

What comes out when a Mormon and a Jew raise a kid?

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Why I Don’t Pray

By Arthur Goldwag | October 9, 2009

God just might not be that kind of God.

Have You Heard of Rashi?

By Nathan Schneider | October 8, 2009

The day my essay, “The Self-Thinking Thought,” appeared on the New York Times blog Happy Days, I received a letter that went thusly: I read your blog on Anselm; quite…

Exoneration Blues

By Laurel Snyder | September 20, 2009

A call from Crappy Ex-boyfriend spurs a crisis of faith.

Postcards from My Chastity Pledge

By Rebecca Katherine Hirsch | September 19, 2009

Hell is other people’s multi-faith neighborhoods.

There’s a New Year Every Month

By KtBniks | September 18, 2009

There’s passing in the air. Peter, Paul and Mary are confronted by the truth of their own lyrics. A soldier sings and remembers a fateful Sabbath back in 1944. Ram’s…

Jewish Without the Big-Noseness

By Nathan Schneider | August 28, 2009

My RSS feeds were crawling with Jewish International Conspiracy today. (It was a welcome break from learning that my other favorite religion, Catholicism, is going back on its longtime and…

Bedtime Stumblings

By Peter Bebergal | August 20, 2009

Somewhere between Jedi and G.I. Joe, there must be an explanation.

I Was A Pre-Pubescent Messiah

By Irina Reyn | July 3, 2009

On my days of divine immortality in Queens.

Mistress of the Return

By Peter Manseau | June 18, 2009

An exclusive excerpt from Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter.

Kaddish Clearance Sale

By Eliezer Sobel | June 8, 2009

Just call 1-800-KADDISH, today!

Bad for the Jews

By Jeff Sharlet | June 8, 2009

“Bad for the Jews” is a Jewish thing. It’s what my great uncles and aunts would say when they read about a Jewish serial killer or a Jewish pornographer. “Bad…

Jews, God and Videotape

By Jeff Sharlet | May 27, 2009

Gottlieb called his rabbi and said, “I know tonight is Kol Nidre, but tonight the Yankees start the playoffs. Rabbi, I’m a life-long Yankee fan. I’ve got to watch the…

The Book of Gershon

By Gordon Haber | May 11, 2009

The trials—and occasional licentiousness—of a reluctant prophet.

My Big Fat Jewish Pregnancy

By Elizabeth Wildman | May 8, 2009

One woman’s navel-gazing over the meaning of Jewish life.

Regions of the Great Heresy

By Nathan Schneider | May 5, 2009

At the 92nd Street Y tonight, I joined KtB author Ann Neumann for a lecture by the Israeli novelist David Grossman on Bruno Schulz. Jonathan Safran Foer, in turn, introduced…

All I Ever Wanted

By Matthew Fishbane | May 5, 2009

A skeptical vacationer laments the lack of cock fighting at Club Med.

Talmud vs. Torture

By Jeff Sharlet | April 29, 2009

I noted yesterday that religious voices against torture have not been clearly heard in the public conversation. That’s in part the fault of a media that tends to “get” religion…

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