Jewish History

POVERTY AND WORK ISSUES: Workforce participation of Ethiopian men aged 22-64 has fallen substantially in the past 10 years. (Haaretz) ...

PEJE’s new study on the impact of Jewish day schools has garnered a fair amount of attention from the Jewish ...

The battle is over. Dershowitz has won. Norman Finkelstein needs a new job. I’m certainly not a Finkelstein devotee, but ...

ISRAEL–LAND AND RESIDENTIAL ISSUES: “We are being sent abroad, quite simply, to lie,” says a senior Israeli diplomat serving in ...

I stumbled upon this fascinating video (below) of Meir Kahane debating Ehud Olmert on ABC News (Nightline?) with Ted Koppel. ...

According to food blog eater.com and neighborhood chatter ,the Second Avenue Deli will be reopening on 33rd street between 3rd ...

From Americans for Peace Now: The war that broke out on June 5, 1967 radically changed the Arab-Israeli conflict: It ...

The Center for Online Judaic Studies, which is being run out of NYU, has posted its first educational resource guides ...

Props to JTA for pointing out Rabbi Marc Angel’s scathing critique of the Israeli Chief Rabbinate in the Jerusalem Post. ...

Yesterday I mentioned Gidi Grinstein’s suggestion that many of Israel’s problems are rooted in the instability of its government. Here’s ...

I just got back from a lunchtime speech given by Gidi Grinstein, President of the Reut Institute (“an innovative policy ...