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On June 16th, literary geeks around the world (and on the Internet) celebrate Bloomsday, a holiday named after Leopold Bloom, the protagonist of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. Ulysses is 783 pages, but it takes place entirely on one day–June 16. Its plot mirrors Homer’s Odyssey, with Bloom standing in for Odysseus and his wife, Molly, as Penelope. There’s even […]

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Being a lesbian and an Orthodox Jew isn’t necessarily a paradox. After all, the sections of the Torah which prohibit homosexuality don’t contain a single word about lesbianism. Still, in Orthodox culture, the social stigma of lesbianism is every bit as significant as male homosexuality. Keep Your Wives Away from Them is a collection of stories from lesbian Orthodox Jews. The mostly-autobiographical stories are sometimes funny, sometimes snarky, […]

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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