Partner Blogs
Is JTA Out of Touch?
Over at Cross-Currents, Eytan Kobre has referenced a recent JTA report as proof that the secular Jewish media doesn’t understand ...
Turkey and the Jews
-In Turkey, a wildly successful book explains that Turkey’s devoutly Muslim prime minister and his ruling pro-Islamic party are “actually ...
Feed Me Bubbe
While trying to find some cooking demonstrations online, I came across a gem in “Feed Me Bubbe.”Basically Avrom plays host ...
MyIsraeliteLearning.com
An email we received from a concerned reader of MJL: I noticed you do not mention Israelite or Ephraimite as ...
The Hebrew Language
-When and why did the “v” become “b,” so that the Hebrew, “Ivrit,” became the English “Hebrew”? (Haaretz) -Why have ...
DREAMS revealed
A few weeks ago, I blogged about the Boteach/Steinhardt/Feldman debate on Jewish values. As I wrote, Boteach left the audience ...
Great Blog + James Kugel
I’ve been planning to write about the very excellent blog “And the Enlightened Ones Shall Shine,” known as XGH, for ...
Interview w/Kinky Friedman
Kinky Friedman may be best known for his run as an independent candidate in the 2006 Texas gubernatorial race, with ...
But this time, they let them stay.
From Ynet: A cruise liner carrying some 300 Jewish passengers docked in the Israeli port of Haifa on Thursday in ...
Dying with Dignity
The most recent issue of Moment magazine has a powerful and moving article by Rabbi David Wolpe about his conversations ...
Annapolis Peace Conference
-Sarah Honig scores the idea of making generous offers to “perfidious Abbas� and labels the notion that “his current powerlessness ...
Again with the smart thing?
The American Enterprise Institute, a right-wing think-tank that has served as the home to many neoconservatives, hosted an event this ...
Vegging Out
It was an honest mistake on our part. We were too busy celebrating Jewish Social Action Month for most of ...
Even the ADL Must be Cringing
Few things make us more uncomfortable than potentially dubious claims of antisemitism. One thing that does: obviously dubious claims of ...
The Bible
-The scriptures of Jews, Christians and Moslems each proclaim their own to be the Chosen Ones. In an age when ...