Jewish History

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

Rabbi Sherwin Wine, who founded the Secular Humanistic Judaism movement, died in a car crash this weekend. He was 79. ...

Before there were Halliburton and Exxon-Mobil, there was United Fruit.I’ve been spending a lot of my spare time over the ...

The other day I blogged about my gut discomfort with the class-action lawsuit brought by children of Holocaust survivors, asking ...

A look at the extensive splits within the religious establishment in Israel, and their increasing inability to deal with challenges ...

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

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

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

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

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

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