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Running amok in a friend’s CD collection can be hit or miss. Listening to every song the Beatles ever recorded? Awesome. Listening to every song that Ace of Base put out? Not quite as cool. The Judaica Sound Archive is an amazing resource–a collection of literally thousands of Jewish songs spanning over a century. Original Al […]

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Earlier this year, journalist Jeffrey Yoskowitz started the site PorkMemoirs.com to be exactly what it sounds like–a collection of people’s memories about a “complicated meat.” Notably, nearly half the contributors so far are Jewish or Muslim. The stories on the site don’t all pay tribute to the other white meat. In fact, several are about being forced to eat pork, or […]

In the Talmud, rabbinical personalities often take on aspects of Sherlock Holmes: reasoning deductively, digging for clues where none are apparent. But as far as we know, no Talmudic rabbi made a part-time hobby out of being a private investigator–the pioneer in that area was Rabbi David Small. Rabbi Small was the subject of 12 novels by Harry Kemelman, […]

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