Mixed Multitudes
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 ...