A new study has shown the dangers of playing mahjong and how it might cause seizures. Although the description in the article seems to be a bit different from what I picture happens in games that are played in Miami Beach. The game, which is intensely social and sometimes played in crowded mahjong parlours, involves [...]
Shmarya over at Failed Messiah has been active lately with some of the reactions to the Noah Feldman article (see here about the “cropping out” that probably never was). In his latest post he quotes from an on-line opinion piece by R. Norman Lamm in the Forward. The following quote caught my eye, Why not [...]
Many studies have been written trying to describe the impact of Jewish education on the adult lives of those who have received a Jewish education. This study comes to the conclusion, not surprisingly, that the more Jewish education a child has, the stronger their Jewish identity and commitment later in life. For me one of [...]
Some of you may know that the first Bible printed in Hebrew in North America was printed in 1814 in Philadelphia. If interested, you can either buy a copy here or just read about it here. What may not be so well-know is what was the first Bible printed in any language in North America. [...]
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