Mixed Multitudes

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Democracy and the Internet

A few weeks ago I wrote about the internet’s potential to help democratize Judaism. I hadn’t seen these lines from ...

A New Image for Israel

For our blog readers who also subscribe to Sports Illustrated (I know this may be a small percentage), “This Week’s ...

This is not kosher, Shlomo!

A passing reference to last year’s Morgan Freeman movie 10 Items or Less reminded me of a hilarious short film ...

Coming to Israel

The US Reform movement is placing a major new emphasis on aliyah, with an explicit goal “to impact Israeli society.� ...

The Future (or Death) of Theology

The other day, Meredith blogged about Elliot Cosgrove’s Forward op-ed about the unfortunate decline of Jewish theology. But I’d like ...

Something to Chew On

Puppies are cute, cuddly, and loving. They can even be Jewish. (Who hasn’t been to a bark mitzvah these days?)Puppy ...

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 ...

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