Mixed Multitudes

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Gaza/West Bank Fantasies

Nahum Barnea argues that current notions, based on a total Fatah/West bank and Hamas/Gaza separation are based on utterly unrealistic ...

Debating Peoplehood

Over at Jewcy, editor Joey Kurtzman and JTS provost Jack Wertheimer recently concluded a heated debate about the state of ...

Trying to be colorblind

Apparently there’s a new crisis in our community–addressing Jews of color.Or at least Jewish communal leaders are creating said crisis.The ...

Paying the Price

Moishe Ayre Friedman attended a Holocaust denial conference in Tehran, and in response, the Vienna Orthodox school has expelled his ...

Democracy and the Internet

A few weeks ago I wrote about the internet’s potential to help democratize Judaism. I hadn’t seen these lines from ...

A New Image for Israel

For our blog readers who also subscribe to Sports Illustrated (I know this may be a small percentage), “This Week’s ...

This is not kosher, Shlomo!

A passing reference to last year’s Morgan Freeman movie 10 Items or Less reminded me of a hilarious short film ...

Coming to Israel

The US Reform movement is placing a major new emphasis on aliyah, with an explicit goal “to impact Israeli society.� ...

The Future (or Death) of Theology

The other day, Meredith blogged about Elliot Cosgrove’s Forward op-ed about the unfortunate decline of Jewish theology. But I’d like ...

Something to Chew On

Puppies are cute, cuddly, and loving. They can even be Jewish. (Who hasn’t been to a bark mitzvah these days?)Puppy ...

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