Here we go. What didn’t we do this week? Well, for one, we didn’t write about Maimonides-related Halloween costumes. Oh wait, we did. If I were to have a time machine, and believe me, it’s on my list of things to get, I’d DEFINITELY go to Eastern Europe between the years 1700-1914. Why you ask? [...]

There is no better introduction to Paul Rudnick’s book of essays, I Shudder, than its subtitle: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey. And there is nowhere that this description is more apt than the first essay: in which Rudnick tells his life story — a common story, really, of being a writer [...]

Rabbi Judah says: Whoever does not teach his son a trade or profession teaches him to be a thief. –Babylonian Talmud, Kiddushin 29a Find more Wise Fridays wisdom on MJL.

Oh Taylor Swift. You were doing so well. Everyone loved you and your innocent ways. You even went on The View. It doesn’t get much better than that. But you crazy celebrities just can’t handle being on top. While everyone hates Kanye West for ruining your “moment” at the VMAs, you had to one up [...]

I really can’t decide what to think of the new film New York, I Love You — except that I should probably see it before i make any judgment. The trailer looks stunning. But the web clips of the segment “Kosher Vegetarian,” its segment about Hasidic Jews, make me wince — although it’s scripted by [...]

I’m not a big re-blogger — if I think an article’s good, I’ll just tell you to go there. But the latest post on The Sensible Jew really hit home for me. From the first sentences of the post, my eyebrows shot up and stayed that way. “The Amish are best known for their ascetic [...]

It’s been said over and over again. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart is the king of the Jewish joke. I feel like they can’t go two episodes without making one (Ironically enough, in an interview I did with Daily Show writer Rob Kutner a couple months back, he said that most of the Jew [...]

I’m way behind the learning curve on this one. I guess that’s what happen when you turn 18 and stop learning about new music until enough people tweet about it. I mean, with lyrics like these: Let’s spend the night entwined Out on the boardwalk in sickly summertime like the yin and the yang of [...]

Being at Kosherfest kind of makes me want to go home and take a shower, but there are a number of funny and awesome things about this gathering: –There is some really good food and great products sprinkled among the usual (and bad) suspects. Holy Cow Beef Jerky looks like it could be good. Nature’s [...]

Everything here seems to have the label “All Natural,” which doesn’t make a lot of sense to me since as far as I can tell, this is the processed food capitol of New Jersey right now. I keep asking people what it means to be “all natural” and they helpfully tell me that they only [...]