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These Books Should be Burned
Recently I walked into a Judaica store in New York City with my boyfriend. We had to buy some new ...
Another way of avoiding American politics.
Great news for those hoping the upcoming Israeli elections will decrease corruption by government officials. Aryeh Deri is running for ...
Israeli Defense Forces
The complex set of lessons imparted at the IDF’s Officer Training School near Mitzpe Ramon. (Jerusalem Post)Only 52% of Israeli ...
Permitted graffiti
I received this from a (non-Jewish) teacher at a school that’s largely not Jewish. It’s a classroom experiment — and, ...
Sweet Home Alabama?
Yesterday, I had never heard of Dothan, Alabama. Today, I might be considering a move there. Larry Blumberg and his ...
God on Trial
You know that story wherein a group of rabbis in a concentration camp assembles a beit din — a team ...
How do you help…?
This morning on the subway, I was scribbling away in my notebook — scrunched up, as usual, between a 300-pound ...
Religious. Gay. You’ve heard this, right?
Earlier this year, the Israeli website HOD launched. It’s a Hebrew acronym that roughly translates to “religious and gay.” It’s ...
Ultra-Orthodox Activism
On the right-wing Haredi news site Vos Iz Neias, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz takes the Orthodox world to task on the ...
Sarah Palin *hearts* Jews for Jesus
While not necessarily true, the reports are leaking out: Sarah Palin is a little more, uh, fundamentalist, than her “pit ...
Jewish Magic
A couple of weeks ago, a California man named Naftoli Smolyansky disappeared during a boating trip after jumping in the ...
Judgment Day
It’s the month of Elul, the time when we begin the introspection that culminates with the High Holidays. So I ...