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Religious. Gay. You’ve heard this, right?

Earlier this year, the Israeli website HOD launched. It’s a Hebrew acronym that roughly translates to “religious and gay.” It’s ...

Ultra-Orthodox Activism

On the right-wing Haredi news site Vos Iz Neias, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz takes the Orthodox world to task on the ...

Sarah Palin *hearts* Jews for Jesus

While not necessarily true, the reports are leaking out: Sarah Palin is a little more, uh, fundamentalist, than her “pit ...

Funding Haredi Education

The Knesset has passed a law saying that Haredi high schools can legally get funding without teaching the core curriculum, ...

Israel’s Parties

Yoel Marcus asks of Benjamin Netanyahu, “What is the secret of this man, who flubbed up as prime minister, who ...

P(r)aying for a Blessing

On the way out of work yesterday, I was a little dazed — possibly by the sun, possibly by the ...

Coming to Israel

The Jewish Agency releases a new plan for attracting 1,000 American high-tech professionals to Israel by 2010, but “Just 30 ...

Africans, Emigrating to Israel, Shot by Egypt

NPR reports that refugees from Sudan, Eritrea and Kenya, fleeing the economic and health crises in their own countries, are ...

The Jews of India

A recent issue of the Economist had a fascinating review of Edna Fernandes’ new book The Last Jews of Kerala: ...

A Vice President, a Sacred Space

I went home for Shabbat. Home meaning my parents’ house, which despite knowing I shouldn’t — I have an apartment ...

On the Ground Peace Efforts

“The whole idea of Chefs for Peace is to show that here we are, working in one kitchen, Muslim, Christian ...

Hamas in Gaza

Ali Waked reports that the Hamas raid on the Hilles clan compound marks the completion of the June 2007 revolution, ...

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