Mixed Multitudes
OU Condemns Hate Speech
Kudos to the Orthodox Union for swiftly condemning Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpe’s public remarks that Israeli leaders Ehud Omert, Tzipi ...
Can we all at least pray together?
The ongoing Writers Guild of America strike depresses more and more each day. I support the writers, but I miss ...
Have you read our article on keeping kosher?
A few weekends ago, I came across an old issue of Time magazine from 2006 devoted to stem cell research. ...
Lantos to Retire
Congressman Tom Lantos has announced that he’ll be retiring because of illness. Lantos is the only Holocaust survivor ever elected ...
Joshua: On Leadership
Two ideas about leadership jumped out at me recently when I was reading the first chapter of the Book of ...
Israel News for the New Year
-An association of hundreds of Israeli rabbis called the Rabbinical Congress for Peace – Pikuach Nefesh recently wrote U.S. President ...
Football Player Goes Frum
The theme of today’s blog is apparently Jews and Texas. This video follows the journey of Alan Veingrad, a former ...
Charlie Wilson’s Jews
Yesterday, I took in a viewing of Charlie Wilson’s War, the Aaron Sorkin-written, Tom Hanks-acted film about the congressman responsible ...
Transitions
Last week, I blogged about the closing of the Ziv Tzedakah Fund. Today I received this letter from their Israel ...
Ziv Tzedakah Fund to Close
For more than 25 years, Danny Siegel, aka the Mitzvah Man, has been distributing money to little-known tzedakah projects primarily ...