Jewish History

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How to Judge People

If there’s one thing the Jewish community is all-too often missing, it’s self-criticism. Groups and movements tend to blame other ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Who will pay for my therapy?

I don’t want to judge people who have been traumatized by Holocaust-survivor parents, but I’m not sure I can help ...

Syria and the North

Pointing out that “The Golan … has been Israeli for 40 years, double the time it was in Syria’s hands..… ...

French Jews and Anti-Semitism

Will a new president's election bring it to an end?

The End of the Jewish Newspaper?

A story came across my desk today discussing the fact that Jewish newspapers are fighting to stay alive in a ...

A Dead Horse Rigged to a Land Mine?

Now is the time to strike a deal with the Palestinians, says Yossi Beilin, because “the Palestinians have a pragmatic ...

Positive change for USCJ?

Even the Conservative Movement has jumped on to the eco-friendly bandwagon. This week, The Washington Post highlighted the new seal ...

The Joy of Sects

In an effort to get smarter and diversify my knowledge, I’ve recently decided to try and read Wikipedia’s daily featured ...

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