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This post is cross-posted on my personal blog. This is the second part of a two-part blog, but since it’s pretty darn long, you can read the first installment of my Pesach, which includes my first-ever experience at an Orthodox shul, by clicking HERE. And if you don’t want to read it? Well, let’s just [...]

A friend just e-mailed this to me, and I wanted to pop it up really quick to share. I have to admit that my knowledge of U.S. rabbis is pretty weak. I concern myself so much with the great dead teachers (Rashi, Maimonides, etc.) that I seem to forget to look in my own backyard [...]

I just spotted this story and had to share. It’s about the Jewish rapper Y-Love — a black, Orthodox Jew who actually tried to convert at the age of 14!
His curiosity grew into faith, and at age 14 he began attending synagogue at Johns Hopkins University. Much against his Roman Catholic mother’s will, at the [...]

It looks like Israel has had it with the missing link between Israel and the Diaspora, and thus, it has set out to create an International Web Portal for Jewry! There’s also this story.
… last week, cabinet secretary Oved Yehezkel called a meeting in the Prime Minister’s Office of representatives of world Jewish organizations, including [...]

I came across an abundance of interesting articles this morning, and I thought I’d share a couple with the mass. Feel free to comment, especially about item number 1, which I think is absolutely, well, fascinating and a minor bit frustrating (i.e. I think it’s inappropriate for people to convert Orthodox, then walk out of [...]