Jewish History

–The total fertility rate in the country’s ultra-Orthodox community has dropped sharply in the past several years, e.g. in the ...

I generally don’t enjoy people who obsess about the media being anti-Israel, but this egregious case of bias is rather ...

This past week, The Simpsons featured the Hillel from Marge’s college days in a flashback. So what else does Hillel ...

-Rabbi Avi Shafran takes a dour view of blogs: responsible blogs, in the Jewish realm are “decidedly in the minority. ...

Last week, YNet reprinted an article by Aaron Klein, which purports to be about anti-Zionist positions held by Israeli academics, ...

Last fall there was a good deal of blog chatter and press coverage about a study released by Steve M. ...

-A conference in Israel looks at the Reform Movement’s failure to make significant inroads in Israeli society. (The Jerusalem Post)-Rabbi ...

-With Ms. Magazine rejecting an ad celebrating three Israeli women leaders, Phyllis Chesler accuses “This is a feminism that has ...

The ever-insightful Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein has an interesting and sobering post over at Cross-Currents about the Spinka Hasid tax fraud ...

No joke. Heeb magazine’s humor editor David Deutsch takes on Brandeis professor Jonathan Sarna in an op-ed in this week’s ...

–An overview of the unauthorized settlement outposts in the West Bank finds there to be over 100 at present. Ariel ...

-In a number of cities “intransigent registrars and rabbis” are refusing to recognize state-sanctioned conversions to Judaism, and it is ...