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Voting and the Homosexual Agenda

In anticipation of today’s primaries, Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman for the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada ...

Obama and Israel

-Aaron Klein argues that Robert Malley, a principal Obama foreign policy adviser, “penned a well-circulated New York Review of Books ...

I Wonder What’s On the Menu

From JTA: Nefesh B’Nefesh set up a large-screen TV in its Jerusalem offices for expatriate Americans to watch the Super ...

Israeli Demographics

–The total fertility rate in the country’s ultra-Orthodox community has dropped sharply in the past several years, e.g. in the ...

Reading Mordecai Kaplan

I stumbled upon an interesting passage in Mordecai Kaplan’s Judaism As a Civilization that articulates one of the pressing questions ...

Photography in Focus

-In “Israel Through My Lens�, David Rubinger “gives a spirited account of his six-decade, seven-war career as Time-Life’s photographer in ...

(Another) Foreskin’s Lament

Erica Jong has never held her tongue, so why would she when talking about her grandson’s circumcision? Answer: She wouldn’t. ...

Let There Be Light

I generally don’t enjoy people who obsess about the media being anti-Israel, but this egregious case of bias is rather ...

Do They Need A Program Director?

This past week, The Simpsons featured the Hillel from Marge’s college days in a flashback.So what else does Hillel International ...

Civilized Discourse

-Rabbi Avi Shafran takes a dour view of blogs: responsible blogs, in the Jewish realm are “decidedly in the minority. ...

The Next Big Idea

When philanthropist Charles Bronfman announced his intention to fund a two-year visiting chair at Brandeis for someone who could come ...

Psychedelics, Informants, & More…

-Joseph Epstein provides a comprehensive and generally favorable review of the PBS documentary “The Jewish Americans.� (National Endowment for the ...

Finally Good News From Hollywood

MSNBC is reporting that Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have left the Kabbalah kraze: “Ashton and Demi used to have ...

Israel Academia Monitor

Last week, YNet reprinted an article by Aaron Klein, which purports to be about anti-Zionist positions held by Israeli academics, ...

Young Jews and Israel

Last fall there was a good deal of blog chatter and press coverage about a study released by Steve M. ...