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  • Gymnast David Sender’s Olympic Games journey began in Israel

    June 4, 2012 8:54pm

    Gymnast David Sender, a five-medal Maccabiah Games winner, seeks a place on the U.S. Olympic team.

  • No, Adam Yauch wasn’t a yeshiva boy, but we can still claim him

    May 7, 2012 7:40pm

    Contrary to urban legend, the Beastie Boys didn’t go to yeshiva, but there is still good reason for Jews to be proud of late hip-hop legend Adam Yauch.

  • Is HBO’s ‘Girls’ about young women’s struggles, or some women’s privileges?

    April 19, 2012 9:37pm

    Lena Dunham’s “Girls” has pretensions of representing the experience of a generation, but it depicts only a narrow — and privileged — segment of young women.

  • From planting to blessings, Boulder gets into Jewish food movement

    April 17, 2012 4:16pm

    A partnership among funders, activists and environmental organizations in Boulder, Colo., is culminating with the Rocky Mountain Food Summit.

  • Share and share alike: Boulder’s Jewish community at work

    December 27, 2011 3:00pm

    At the foot of the Rocky Mountains, Jews of many organizational and denominational stripes are working together to forge a vibrant and innovative community.

  • Apres le beard: Matisyahu takes the stage in Boulder

    December 19, 2011 2:07pm

    The Chasidic reggae superstar performs for the first time since shaving his trademark beard — and the crowd was happy.

  • Shh! Don’t talk about sex at Yeshiva University

    December 13, 2011 8:07pm

    Students say that Yeshiva University’s reticence to talk publicly about student sexual activity ignores reality and makes it difficult for them to get information about health threats.

  • Sex story engulfs YU Beacon

    December 11, 2011 2:20am

    It’s not your typical college sex scandal. There are no accusations of molestation, inappropriate faculty-student relationships or date-rape charges. Instead, the precipitating incident was the publication by a student-run newspaper of an article purportedly by a female student describing a one-night stand. But this is Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women, an Orthodox institution where…

  • The many hats of Mayim Bialik

    December 5, 2011 7:11pm

    Actor, blogger and neuroscience PhD, Mayim Bialik is adding social justice to an already impressive portfolio.

  • At Brooklyn’s Jewish wedding expo, where were the brides?

    November 30, 2011 10:20pm

    When the crowds started trinkling in Tuesday night to the Jewish wedding expo at Brooklyn’s Grand Prospect Hall, there was everything you would expect to find at a wedding expo aimed at Orthodox Jews: kosher food venders offering deep-fried hors d’oeuvres and chocolate desserts, makeup booths, floral arrangers, videographers, wig sellers, dressmakers, musicians, and even a table espousing…