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A bonanza of films from TIFFThis year’s edition of the Toronto International Film Festival was unusually rich, interesting and stimulating, a veritable bonanza for...read more...
The holiday guestsCommencing the issue of September 27, web columnist Lauren Aginsky joins our print edition under her married name, Lauren Kramer. Every year on the...read more...
Anti-film riots reflect deeper currentsIn the immediate aftermath of the violent protests that began in Libya on Sept. 11 and spread through much of the Muslim world in reaction to a crass...read more...
A change would do you goodQ: How many Jews does it take to change a light bulb? A: 30. One to change the bulb and 29 to give contradictory advice to the person changing it. Q...read more...
A Jerusalem updateIn May, The CJN interviewed Ben Erely, Dana Merzel and Omer Shafrir, three young Israeli idealists who are working to “build” Jerusalem...read more...
Asking teens, ‘Are you a Zionist?In collaboration with professors Alex Pomson and Howie Deitcher of Hebrew University, for the past two years, I have been listening to Jewish high...read more...
The role of piyutim in tshuvahMany people ask me about the piyutim. What are they, where do they come from, and are we obligated to sing them? Piyutim are liturgical songs...read more...
What to eat before you don’tOn Yom Kippur, we are supposed to be thinking about prayer and atonement, and not about earthly pleasures such as eating and drinking. Unfortunately...read more...
Two infinitudes, two pocketsThe 17th-century French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal noted that, as human beings in the world of nature, we are poised between two...read more...
A Kafkaesque drama unfolds in Tel AvivFranz Kafka, an aspiring, unknown Czech Jewish writer living in Prague, was a clerk by day, toiling anonymously over personal injury claims for the...read more...

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