Mixed Multitudes
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 ...
Independent Minyan Study
Much has been written about the independent minyan movement (including several articles in the last issue of Zeek). But is ...
The Holocaust: A Political Asset?
THE HOLOCAUST: Amira Hass argues that Israel has turned the Holocaust “into a political asset� that “serves Israel primarily in ...
Batteries not included
This week Gizmodo included the Say-a-blessing key chain among its featured products. The device has eight buttons with icons representing ...