Mixed Multitudes
Remembering Grace Paley
Earlier this year, when Tillie Olsen passed away, I emailed Alice Mattison, author of the wonderful story collection In Case ...
Dodging the Draft
-Some views on whether the rise in the percentage of Jewish men who do not serve in the IDF is ...
Michael Vick Does Teshuva
It’s Elul for Michael Vick, too. After pleading guilty to charges related to his involvement in dogfighting, Vick gave a ...
Comic strips, redux
I’ve blogged about Eli Valley’s comics here before. Now the Jewish writer/communal professional has created web site dedicated solely to ...
Evacuation from Hebron
-A first-hand account of the evacuation of the families from Hebron. (The Jewish Press)-Gideon Levy argues that the evacuation from ...
Jewish Genetic Diseases
This week’s Forward includes their annual guide to Jewish genetic diseases. With advances in technology and medicine, the number of ...
Baruch Dayan Emet
Grace Paley, a wonderful writer and fierce social activist has died. She was 84. The MJL article about Paley can ...
Where were the Jews?
In this week’s Jewish Week, our friend Mik Moore from jspot considers the lack of Jewish representation at the YearlyKos ...
Berch is Back
-There may be as much as 4 billion dollars worth of natural gas offshore of Gaza. Why has it not ...
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Treif-tasting Fish
We all get cravings. There’s the usual–chocolate, pizza, Chinese food. The childlike–macaroni and cheese, peanut butter and jelly. The Jewish–pickles, ...