Recently Dunkin’ Donuts pulled a television spot featuring talk show host and Food Network personality Rachael Ray after a Fox news commentator associated it with terrorists. In the ad, Ray is wearing a scarf that Michelle Malkin said in her nationally syndicated column resembled a kiffiyeh, Middle Eastern garb that is “popularized by Yasser Arafat […]

Tomer Kamerling argues that gay pride parades no longer do anything to advance rights of homosexuals in Israel and hence should be discontinued. (YNet)
Educators are given specific advice on how to welcome GLBT Jews into the community. (Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Israel has stated that it will instruct its ministry’s Population Registry to […]

Rejoice 20 and 30 something young Jews! We can now relive our childhood!
Hydrox cookies are back on the market to celebrate their 100th year.
Prior to 1998, Oreos were not kosher, and Jewish children snacked on this other black and white sandwich cookie. However Kellogg’s pulled them off the shelves in 2003 during to poor competition […]

The Bronfman Youth Fellowships, one of MJL’s partners, is hosting the following event in New York City. RSVP information can be found at the bottom.
Jews & Tutsis: Oral History as Justice
Remembering the Rwandan Genocide with
Taylor Krauss (BYFI 1997)
Director of oral history archives, Voices of Rwanda
Eugenie Mukeshimana
Rwanda genocide survivor and activist
Moderated by:
Dan Kurtz-Phelan (BYFI 1998)
Senior Editor, […]

Donna Rosenthal gives some examples of the astonishing ignorance of many media figures about Israel. (The Forward)
The French Court of Appeals overturned the libel conviction of Philippe Karsenty, who had asserted that France 2 and its Middle East correspondent Charles Enderlin’s anti-Israel reporting on the death of the Palestinian child […]

Dear Conservative Movement,
It’s been a few months since I’ve had to write you a nasty letter, and I was proud of that. You’ve come out against Agriprocessors and even worked on opening up a Washington, DC office like I asked.
But then you go and screw up everything. With independent minyanim, nonetheless. In your latest misguiding, […]

Judaism may be a religion of action (mitzvot), but speech — words — are, perhaps, considered equally powerful. In the creation story of Genesis I, God speaks the world into being. (”And God said: ‘Let there be light.’ And there was light.”)
In addition, the perils of lashon ha-ra (evil speech) are well documented in Jewish […]

“There are 613 mitzvot (commandments from God) that all Jews are supposed to follow. Some of them are easy to understand and apply to modern day life, while others seem antiquated and irrelevant. We invite you to ponder the 613 rules and tosubmit your own (re)interpretation of what they mean to us today.”
This introduction […]

A new water tower will allow the Israeli, haredi town of Modi’in Illit to have “completely shomer Shabbos water”; inhabitants can receive water on Shabbos “without human intervention. The water tower is filled to the top before Shabbos and the pumps bringing in water … are turned off at the beginning […]

Much as been written about the ongoing crisis at the AgriProcessors meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa and the repercussions. JTA even has an audio report of how the raid unfolded.
But only a few articles have been addressing the potential shortage of kosher meat. The Forward wrote:
Rabbi Seth Mandel, the Orthodox Union’s head of kosher slaughter, […]