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Religion in Israel

A look at the extensive splits within the religious establishment in Israel, and their increasing inability to deal with challenges ...

Harry Potter Frenzy: Day 3

Today’s offering of Harry Potter is a look at the new book Harry Potter and the Torah. No, it’s not ...

Anti-Semitism Revisited

As Kanye West so eloquently rapped in “Never Let Me Down”, “Racism is still alive, they just be concealing it.” ...

Harry Potter Frenzy: Day 2

My quest for Harry Potter news continues. As I noted in my blog yesterday, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, ...

Shul News

The Shabazi shul in LA has “no sign and no front door.…The Shema prayer … is … not a melody. ...

Jews for Jesus: Interview w/Shmuel Herzfeld

Last week, NPR’s “Heard on the Street” featured a “debate” between Jew for Jesus Larry Dubin and Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld ...

Who will pay for my therapy?

I don’t want to judge people who have been traumatized by Holocaust-survivor parents, but I’m not sure I can help ...

Harry Potter as Midrash

The frenzy has finally hit me. After seeing, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix this weekend (in 3-D, ...

Syria and the North

Pointing out that “The Golan … has been Israeli for 40 years, double the time it was in Syria’s hands..… ...

The End of the Jewish Newspaper?

A story came across my desk today discussing the fact that Jewish newspapers are fighting to stay alive in a ...

Graphic Israel

Today, the Very Short List featured a new graphic novel — Exit Wounds, by Rutu Modan — that takes place ...

A Dead Horse Rigged to a Land Mine?

Now is the time to strike a deal with the Palestinians, says Yossi Beilin, because “the Palestinians have a pragmatic ...

Which came first?

After my post yesterday, we were talking in the office about the different intentions behind the rules of kashrut.What eventually ...

Just Jew It!

“Games, projects, songs and sometimes relay races,” makes Maryland-based JEWEL Hebrew School appear to be similar to its peers. However, ...

Catholic Supremacy

Yesterday, for the second time in a week, Pope Benedict XVI reversed positions of the Second Vatican Council, which in ...