Mixed Multitudes
Rabin Memorial Day
Today is Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day, which coincides with his yartzeit on the 12th of Cheshvan.I’ve included some links for ...
A Counter History
I like blogging about deli, particularly the Second Avenue Deli. When I first moved to New York a few years ...
Interview with Merle Feld
I recently had the opportunity to interview poet and educator Merle Feld, author of A Spiritual Life: Exploring the Heart ...
Good for Israel. Good for the Jews?
Last week the Cornerstone Church of San Antonio held its 26th annual “Night to Honor Israel.” With more than 6,000 ...
A rabbi, a philantropist and, a professor walk into a room…
Sounds like a bad joke?It might as well have been one last Thursday at “A Debate on Jewish Values.” Hosted ...
Condemning Violence
Several blogs have picked up the Haaretz report about 5 ultra-Orthodox men who apparently assaulted a woman and an Israeli ...
Change at Commentary
Commentary has announced that New York Post columnist John Podhoretz will be its next editor. Podhoretz will be only the ...
Elie Wiesel Digs Jesus
Last night, Elie Wiesel began his lecture at the 92nd Street Y with a few words about Jean-Marie Lustiger, the ...
Faithbook
I’ve recently stumbled across the blog Faithbook, a relatively new project (started this spring) of “On Faith,” the Newsweek-Washington Post ...
Gaza and the West Bank
-The Palestinian Authority is paving a four-lane highway inside Israel’s sovereign territory. You’ve never heard of this? That, says Yossi ...