Mixed Multitudes

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Why Be Jewish?

On Sunday, I’ll be heading to Park City, Utah for a conference called called “Why Be Jewish?” The 2 1/2 ...

Founder of Humanistic Judaism Dead at 79.

Rabbi Sherwin Wine, who founded the Secular Humanistic Judaism movement, died in a car crash this weekend. He was 79. ...

An End to Shabbos Shopping?

A poll shows that in Israel, 27 percent of the Jewish population observes the Shabbat according to Halacha, while 20% ...

Sam, the Banana Man

Before there were Halliburton and Exxon-Mobil, there was United Fruit.I’ve been spending a lot of my spare time over the ...

Harry Potter Frenzy: Day 4

As I was browsing articles on Harry Potter, I came across an item from last year where Daniel Radcliffe (Harry ...

Paying for Justice…and Therapy

The other day I blogged about my gut discomfort with the class-action lawsuit brought by children of Holocaust survivors, asking ...

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 ...

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