Jewish History
The Segulah Trap
Feeling superstitious? Recently The Jewish Week took a look at segulot, Jewish good luck charms. Turns out that they’re not so Jewish after ...
Celebrating Girls
According to Jewish Women’s Archive’s This Week in Jewish History, on March 14, 1977 the New York Times published an ...
Name That War
Reuters reports: Israel is trying to put a name to the war it waged against Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrillas last year, ...
The Private Heschel
Susannnah Heschel has a wonderful article in the Jewish Week about her father, Abraham Joshua Heschel, in which she writes ...
Morbid Jews
The other night I went to an Emerging Jewish Writers panel/reading as part of the Steinhardt Jewish Heritage Festival. The ...
UJ Accepts Gay Rabbinical Students
As expected, the University of Judaism made the first practical move toward integrating the Conservative movement’s new responsum on homosexuality: ...
Campus Wars
Today’s New York Times looks at the latest battle over the Middle East on college campuses: a documentary film, Obsesssion: ...
Evangelicals and Israel
Obviously, a lot has been written about evangelical support for Israel. Yet from all the reading and talking I’ve done ...
Not So Good With the Math
There have been murmurings since December that the UJC’s National Jewish Population Survey was way off. With the publication of a ...