Mixed Multitudes

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Rock the Vote 5769!

These Presidential elections sure do go on for a while.  Sometimes, I say, “Why can’t the US just be like ...

Kosher Beef Gets a New First Name

Well, except for the name part. According to Vos Iz Neias, Rubashkin isn’t the only game in town — or ...

Israeli Defense Forces

The complex set of lessons imparted at the IDF’s Officer Training School near Mitzpe Ramon. (Jerusalem Post)Only 52% of Israeli ...

Permitted graffiti

I received this from a (non-Jewish) teacher at a school that’s largely not Jewish. It’s a classroom experiment — and, ...

Sweet Home Alabama?

Yesterday, I had never heard of Dothan, Alabama.  Today, I might be considering a move there.  Larry Blumberg and his ...

It also has itty bitty split hooves.

Scientists at Hebrew University are helping to raise Israel’s first sturgeon population at Kibbutz Dan in the Upper Galilee. Female ...

God on Trial

You know that story wherein a group of rabbis in a concentration camp assembles a beit din — a team ...

How do you help…?

This morning on the subway, I was scribbling away in my notebook — scrunched up, as usual, between a 300-pound ...

Religious. Gay. You’ve heard this, right?

Earlier this year, the Israeli website HOD launched. It’s a Hebrew acronym that roughly translates to “religious and gay.” It’s ...

Song of the Week

It’s not a secret that I’m a huge fan of the band Stereo Sinai. There are a lot of folks ...

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