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Haftarah for Ki Tisa

Elijah takes on Ahab and worshippers of Baal.

Atheist Bus Ads Still Pissing People Off

A while back I mentioned some atheist bus ads that were going up in Britain. Apparently they’ve been successful enough ...

I Love You. Why Don’t You Love Me Back?

Yesterday, Matthue posted a video from Pesach Stadlin. He referenced/linked to his Love Song to Islamic Fundamentalists but decided not ...

Thoughts from Rabbi Shai Held

Mechon Hadar’s Rabbi Shai Held wrote the following personal and beautiful words about the inauguration, which he has kindly allowed ...

A Prayer for the Inauguration

A friend of mine, Michael Millenson, has a piece over at the Huffington Post about why tomorrow is an amazing ...

Music Video of the Day: The Jews of Uganda and Some White Hippy Kid

If you haven’t seen Pesach Stadlin’s Love Song to Islamic Fundamentalists (from a Jew), we highly recommend you hop over ...

Special Confession

The Washington Post has an interesting article about the Vatican’s “tribunal of conscience” which is an extra special level of ...

Jewish Words and Knee-Jerk Reactions

Yesterday, Jason bolted out of his office with the news that a plane had crashed into the Hudson.Caught in conversation, ...

Dropping the S Bomb

I have a friend in his fifties who has been dating for about thirty years now. He’s a smart, interesting ...

Raise a Glass to Coney Island

Well, it’s official: Astroland has closed, and it isn’t opening up again. Although rumors are flying everywhere (am I the ...

Holocaust Literature is Over (Maybe)

As Meredith noted recently, the Holocaust film industry is experiencing (even by Holocaust film industry standards) a very successful run, ...

Dumb and Dumbererer

I’ve been getting a lot of Facebook invitations to ask me to attend Pro-Israel rallies the past couple of weeks.There ...