Mixed Multitudes
Voting and the Homosexual Agenda
In anticipation of today’s primaries, Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman for the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada ...
Obama and Israel
-Aaron Klein argues that Robert Malley, a principal Obama foreign policy adviser, “penned a well-circulated New York Review of Books ...
I Wonder What’s On the Menu
From JTA: Nefesh B’Nefesh set up a large-screen TV in its Jerusalem offices for expatriate Americans to watch the Super ...
Israeli Demographics
–The total fertility rate in the country’s ultra-Orthodox community has dropped sharply in the past several years, e.g. in the ...
Reading Mordecai Kaplan
I stumbled upon an interesting passage in Mordecai Kaplan’s Judaism As a Civilization that articulates one of the pressing questions ...
Photography in Focus
-In “Israel Through My Lens�, David Rubinger “gives a spirited account of his six-decade, seven-war career as Time-Life’s photographer in ...
(Another) Foreskin’s Lament
Erica Jong has never held her tongue, so why would she when talking about her grandson’s circumcision? Answer: She wouldn’t. ...
Let There Be Light
I generally don’t enjoy people who obsess about the media being anti-Israel, but this egregious case of bias is rather ...
Do They Need A Program Director?
This past week, The Simpsons featured the Hillel from Marge’s college days in a flashback. So what else does Hillel ...
Civilized Discourse
-Rabbi Avi Shafran takes a dour view of blogs: responsible blogs, in the Jewish realm are “decidedly in the minority. ...