Mixed Multitudes
Gaza Message In A Bottle
Residents of Ashkelon recently found a bottle with a message inside–a love letter, written in Arabic, probably sent from Gaza.Ashkelon ...
The Never-Ending Christmas Season
I haven’t seen snow yet. Supposedly it has snowed in New York once or twice, but I have yet to ...
A Self-Hating Jews Double-Header
A sentence was handed out in the case of eight Israeli teenagers, members of a neo-Nazi gang, who beat up ...
Lists, Lists, and More Lists
Damn you Forward 50 and Heeb 100. Look what you have done.First there is the MJL Million (no need to ...
Is Zach Braff Going to Make Aliyah?
Scrubs star Zach Braff is hanging out in Tel Aviv these days, and in an interview with Haaretz it sure ...
Obama: the Orthodox Reaction
As noted earlier today, racism in the religious Jewish community has been more intense — and scrutinized more intensely — ...
I love Birthright and I don’t even qualify for it.
I first heard about Birthright’s new initiative about a month ago. Called Next Shabbat, Taglit-Birthright Israel is sponsoring their alumni ...
God Wants You To Get Laid (Or Eat Chocolate Cake)
I love this article in the New York Times about a pastor who told his congregation of some 20,000 people ...
On Racism
Last week, I blogged about the Jewish community’s (and particularly the Orthodox community’s) confrontation with residual racism (in light of ...
And the High Priest goes in for the field goal…
In the mid-’90s, Israeli television personality Gil Kopatch brought Rabbi Mordechai Gafni on his sports/talk/news show to discuss the weekly ...