Mixed Multitudes
Perfected
ObamaGirl, aka Leah Kauffman, is back with her “wish” to be perfected just as Ann Coulter wants. It’s not nearly ...
On “Orthodox Bashing”
Last weekend’s Jewish Week contained an op-ed by Sherri Mandell that seemed to want to make a point about “Orthodox-bashing” ...
Survivors, Scholars, & Holocaust Fatigue
-A Muslim mother visits Dachau. (Jewish Journal)-A new study asserts that Holocaust trauma affects grandchildren of survivors. (Haaretz)-An Israeli teen ...
Hava Nagila
Get out your party hats. Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer has officially declared October 28 through November 3 “Hava Nagila ...
The Motion
JTA is reporting something about an imaginary motion for a one-state solution to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What they’re reporting ...
Ernst Ehrlich z”l
Historian and Jewish theologian Ernst Ehrlich passed away more than a week ago. I didn’t blog about his death until ...
Military Matters
-Reuven Pedatzur concludes that a war with Syria would include a missile attack on Israeli cities throughout Israel that the ...
Should Jewish children trick or treat?
Each year the discussion surrounding Halloween festivities surfaces in conversations with Jewish educators around the country. Seemingly, regardless of socio-economic ...
The Zookeeper’s Wife
Diane Ackerman’s book The Zookeeper’s Wife — which details how Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who ran the Warsaw Zoo, hid ...
Keeping up with the Brooks…
in jail?David Brooks, notorious for spending more than $10 million on his daughter’s bat mitzvah two years ago, was arrested ...