Mixed Multitudes
A Hairy Situation
As if Agriprocessors/Rubashkin’s isn’t keeping PETA’s hands full enough, Italian animal activists, citing Pope Benedict’s well-known love of cats, are ...
Snoozing on the Shoulders of Giants
This post on Jewschool got me thinking. It’s a pretty common story in our days: a Jewish teenager’s grandfather died, ...
My Team
As you might have guessed, I’m a bit obsessed with the Olympics. They provide for hours of fun and excitement ...
The Madrid Interfaith Parley
Ari Alexander guest blogged from the World Conference on Dialogue in Madrid, organized by the Muslim World League under the ...
Eyes to See with, Photos to Kvell over
Score one (more) for budding innovative technologies in Israel: at Beit Ha’iver, the Center of the Blind, in Herzliya, a ...
The Synagogue Review
A New Jersey Conservative synagogue finds that instrumental music draws crowds for a Friday night service. (NJ Jewish News)Five synagogues ...
The Hope (free mp3!)
My Hasidic father-in-law, after being initiated as the president of his local branch of United Israel Appeal (an organization that, ...
Hostile Games
The Olympics are supposed to be a unifying event, bringing together the world for 17 days of friendly competition. Yet ...
Olympic Culture Hacking
Meredith pointed out that Jews and Israelis are winning Olympic medals all over the place, and then asked, “Why do ...
Haisdic ‘Fixer’ Runs for City Council
Do you ever notice how, for a paper with so much anti-Israel tactics, the New York Times sure reports a ...