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Introducing the This Week on MJL E-Letter

For those of you who don’t always remember to check our homepage every Monday for our latest content, we’ve introduced ...

This Week in Zionism

For me, this week has yielded some very productive thinking about Israel and Zionism. In addition to the blogging and ...

Can You Tell Me How To Get…

…to Ben Yehuda Street?Recently a new Israeli children’s network called HOP! started making new episodes of an Israeli children’s classic, ...

From the Discussions

Israel, from “Burn the Lycra�:The problem is basic: Israel cannot yet come to terms with seperating religion from state. Until ...

Israel’s Soul

As I mentioned yesterday, Alvin Rosenfeld begins his essay “Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism” with several harrowing pages ...

Six Points Fellows Announced

The Six Points Fellowship, which will offer 12 New York-based artists a $25,000 stipend, up to $20,000 in project support, ...

Destroying the Jewish Race

In “Oops, I meant…” news, JTA reports: The minister at a Maine church apologized for a newspaper ad touting a ...

That Anti-Semitism Article

I know I’m a week late, but I finally got around to reading Alvin Rosenfeld’s AJC article “Progressive Jewish Thought ...

Down with Jewish Rap, Up with Jewish Blues! Way up!

So, last week I posted my distaste for the Jewish National Fund’s rap video and Jewish organizations making rap videos in ...

More Walt & Mearsheimer

I just received Farrar, Straus, & Giroux’s preview of its Fall 2007 books, and Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer’s The ...

Costume Central

Tu Bishvat is behind us, which means that Purim is less than a month away. Have you started thinking about ...

Praying for My Soul

Overheard at the Brooklyn Writer’s Space in Park Slope…Woman: You know that coffee shop Postmark?Man: Yeah.Woman: It’s a front! Christian ...

Science & Judaism

I’m pleased to announce MJL’s newest section: Science & Judaism.We’ll be rolling out some more content (including a sub-section on ...

Letters to Klinghoffer

I shared my thoughts (I, II) on David Klinghoffer’s critique of Limmud NY (and “liberal pluralism, generally), now the Forward‘s ...

Up With Trees! Down with Jewish Rap!

There’s a Tu Bishvat video from the Jewish National Fund that seems to be circulating quickly around the Jewish web. ...