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Podhoretz: On Nepotism

The New York Times takes a look at the editorial transition at Commentary: To some within the neoconservative movement, the ...

Rabin Memorial Day

Today is Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day, which coincides with his yartzeit on the 12th of Cheshvan.I’ve included some links for ...

A Counter History

I like blogging about deli, particularly the Second Avenue Deli. When I first moved to New York a few years ...

Interview with Merle Feld

I recently had the opportunity to interview poet and educator Merle Feld, author of A Spiritual Life: Exploring the Heart ...

Good for Israel. Good for the Jews?

Last week the Cornerstone Church of San Antonio held its 26th annual “Night to Honor Israel.” With more than 6,000 ...

A rabbi, a philantropist and, a professor walk into a room…

Sounds like a bad joke?It might as well have been one last Thursday at “A Debate on Jewish Values.” Hosted ...

Condemning Violence

Several blogs have picked up the Haaretz report about 5 ultra-Orthodox men who apparently assaulted a woman and an Israeli ...

Change at Commentary

Commentary has announced that New York Post columnist John Podhoretz will be its next editor. Podhoretz will be only the ...

Elie Wiesel Digs Jesus

Last night, Elie Wiesel began his lecture at the 92nd Street Y with a few words about Jean-Marie Lustiger, the ...

Faithbook

I’ve recently stumbled across the blog Faithbook, a relatively new project (started this spring) of “On Faith,” the Newsweek-Washington Post ...

Gaza and the West Bank

-The Palestinian Authority is paving a four-lane highway inside Israel’s sovereign territory. You’ve never heard of this? That, says Yossi ...

Deconstructing Black Bar Mitzvahs

Apparently Paul Marx decided to answer my burning question from yesterday, “What is a black bar mitzvah?” With an op-ed ...

Do I have to stop blogging about him?

The truth is out. J.K. Rowling finally admits to the not-so-veiled Christian imagery that pervades the Harry Potter series. The ...

Why? Why? Why?

-Why is it that “young Israelis are fighting for the chance to work as pickers throughout the country’s kibbutzimâ€? even ...

L’Chayim, Motherf***er

Thanks to Jewcy for a heads up on this video, “analyzing” the following Jewish lyrics in Jay-Z’s latest song Roc ...