Mixed Multitudes
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 ...
Perfected
ObamaGirl, aka Leah Kauffman, is back with her “wish” to be perfected just as Ann Coulter wants. It’s not nearly ...
On “Orthodox Bashing”
Last weekend’s Jewish Week contained an op-ed by Sherri Mandell that seemed to want to make a point about “Orthodox-bashing” ...
Survivors, Scholars, & Holocaust Fatigue
-A Muslim mother visits Dachau. (Jewish Journal)-A new study asserts that Holocaust trauma affects grandchildren of survivors. (Haaretz)-An Israeli teen ...
Hava Nagila
Get out your party hats. Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer has officially declared October 28 through November 3 “Hava Nagila ...
The Motion
JTA is reporting something about an imaginary motion for a one-state solution to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What they’re reporting ...
Ernst Ehrlich z”l
Historian and Jewish theologian Ernst Ehrlich passed away more than a week ago. I didn’t blog about his death until ...
Military Matters
-Reuven Pedatzur concludes that a war with Syria would include a missile attack on Israeli cities throughout Israel that the ...
Should Jewish children trick or treat?
Each year the discussion surrounding Halloween festivities surfaces in conversations with Jewish educators around the country. Seemingly, regardless of socio-economic ...