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My recent opinion piece on the evils of the Oxford comma was more popular than I had anticipated; apparently, I’m not the only person with strong feelings about punctuation. But as...

The Time magazine headline made me chuckle: “Runner Wins Marathon After Competitors Totally Ran the Wrong Way.” I had visions of silly marathoners paying the just price for their own foolishness...

Earlier this month a famous Jewish comedian was on television and made some very inappropriate jokes about Am Yisrael. While the media made a big deal regarding his belittling of The...

 

For most of us, October 8 was a regular day. It was the Sunday of chol hamoed but otherwise unremarkable. That’s how it started out for the Rosenthal family of Santa...

This article originally appeared on Torah Musings I. Celebrity Selfies This past Motza’ei Shabbos, Jewish social media was buzzing because a famous non-Jewish comedian posted a selfie with Jewish students walking...

It was one of those news stories that makes you ask, “What year is this?” Last week, fans of the Italian soccer team called Lazio posted stickers around Rome’s Stadio Olimpico....

The Shabbos Project. Ever since I saw the video about how the South African Jewish community, most of whom are not observant, came together to try out a Shabbos, I’ve been...

When I was in high school, I had a rebbe who told the following story. When Elvis was popular, someone told him, “You must be happy.” The reason was because the...

Perhaps the most famous “first words” in literature are those of Ishmael, narrator of Herman Melville’s classic novel, Moby Dick. “Call me Ishmael,” he said. Not terribly profound, perhaps, but somehow...