Mixed Multitudes

-Nahum Barnea says Israel has only two options, both “dreadful …either reoccupy Gaza or talk with Hamas.� (Ynet)-The former CIA ...

This story is just starting to make its way into the American news headlines. I’m sure there will be more ...

-Rabbis find they need to choose their political roles, if any, with care. (Washington Jewish Week) -A look at the ...

Fake memoirs are all the rage. James Frey was never was alone, and he’s gotten more company recently.Margaret B. Jones’ ...

-Can Israelis become at home in the Diaspora? (Zeek)-And, for those expat Israelis, what of the next generation? (Haaretz)-And a ...

I’m not sure exactly when this happened, but it appears that Hillel has stopped its popular and successful Jewish Campus ...

-Jude Stewart says that R.B. Kitaj tried to show us what “Diasporist art looks like.â€? (Nextbook)-Reuven Hammer makes the case ...

Last weekend’s Jewish Week had an article on the new conversion courts established by the Rabbinical Council of America under ...

JTA reporter Ben Harris has an short but interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal discussing the Modern Orthodox practice ...

–Expressions of love change over time, from “Dodi li va’ani lo,” to “Ani ohev otach!” to “zeh haromantika” to “bar/bat ...