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Force or Diplomacy?

Israel is told, don’t end your conflict with Syria — this from Farid Ghadry, president of the Reform Party of ...

Where Have All the Theologians Gone?

The week The Forward has an op-ed from Elliot Cosgrove, a young, dynamic rabbi out of Chicago, asking “Where Have ...

My Holocaust, Part III

I’ve already blogged about my negative response to Tova Reich’s novel My Holocaust and the NYTimes’ similar critique.And, indeed, the ...

From Midway to the Mideast

In the latest issue of Newsweek, NYC District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau and Frank M. Tuerkheimer, a professor at the ...

Kurt Waldheim, Dead at 88

This just in: Kurt Waldheim, whose legacy as U.N. secretary-general was overshadowed by revelations that he belonged to a German ...

Is the PA Disbanding?

GAZA TURMOIL: Danny Rubinstein noting that “recent events we have been witnessing in Gaza are actually the disbanding of Palestinian ...

Don’t call it a comeback

Yesterday Shimon Peres was elected the ninth president of Israel, while the Labor party voted Ehud Barak into it’s top ...

Jew vs. Jew

The ultra-Orthodox rabbinical court, Haredi Badatz, placed a curse on both the participants in the upcoming Jerusalem Gay Pride parade ...

Come fly the unfriendly skies

El Al has announced that it will be naming a new Boeing 777-200 after the town Sderot. Sderot has been ...

Boycotting Israel

Earlier this month, the Anti-Defamation League ran a series of newspaper advertisements criticizing British organizations for their proposed boycotts of ...

Poverty & Racism in Israel

POVERTY AND WORK ISSUES: Workforce participation of Ethiopian men aged 22-64 has fallen substantially in the past 10 years. (Haaretz) ...

Hebrew school revisited

PEJE’s new study on the impact of Jewish day schools has garnered a fair amount of attention from the Jewish ...

Finkelstein Denied Tenure

The battle is over. Dershowitz has won. Norman Finkelstein needs a new job. I’m certainly not a Finkelstein devotee, but ...

Pack of Lies or Ugly Truth?

ISRAEL–LAND AND RESIDENTIAL ISSUES: “We are being sent abroad, quite simply, to lie,” says a senior Israeli diplomat serving in ...

Are you Jewish?

So while sitting at the offices of MyJewishLearning, we heard a knock on the door. Low and behold it was ...