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Trouble in (Academic) Paradise

Israeli Arabs will distribute 20,000 booklets on the Nakba, the Palestinian version of 1948 events outside of schools in Arab ...

Legalize Mezuzot!

Rep. Jerrold Nadler is asking Congress to pass a law to allow Jews to hang a mezuzah on the door ...

Glam Doilies

Confession time: I grew up a Conservative Jew, and although I’m Orthodox now — or Hasidic, or Biala, or hairy, ...

Maybe Barack Obama is Jewish.

Today’s Jewel of Elul is written by Barack Obama. Need we say more?Just as the courageous Zionists who established the ...

Education in Israel

Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the founder of the Revisionist movement in Zionism, has been excluded from the list of 100 personages studied ...

Rabbi Dov Linzer On Science & Halakha

This past Wednesday night, Rabbi Dov Linzer, the Rosh Yeshivah of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah spoke at NYU’s L’SHMA Lecture Series ...

Hope, Not Fear

Edgar M. Bronfman is among the Jewish community’s leading philanthropists, and his commitment to this website in particular has been ...

Democrats Don’t Have Internet

In April 2005, The Solomon Project came out with a study showing that 77% of the American Jews voted for ...

You may say she’s a dreamer

Today’s Jewel of Elul is written by philanthropist/superwoman Lynn Schusterman. She writes about dreaming big.Being a philanthropist, I am constantly ...

family members shovel earth into grave

Last weekend, reporter Berny Morson of the Rocky Mountain News was assigned to cover the funeral of a 3-year-old boy. ...

Spectacles of Devotion: Ani vs. Adi

I love listening to songs first thing in the morning. I have a habit of waking up in a very ...

Anti-Semitism

Dr. Gabriel Barkay, professor at Bar-Ilan University, talks about the dangerous new idea of Temple denial, not only in Arab ...