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Jewish Children’s Literature

Classic books continue to inspire new generations.

Minorities in the Negev

Dimona, Israel is known for it’s nuclear plant more than anything else. Most people living in this development town try ...

Jesus and Halakha

I was recently researching some of the ritual practices of Jews for Jesus and stumbled upon the website of the ...

Rummikub

When I was in college, a popular Israel advocacy technique was to inform the campus of “cool facts” about Israel.“Did ...

Turkey and the Jews

-In Turkey, a wildly successful book explains that Turkey’s devoutly Muslim prime minister and his ruling pro-Islamic party are “actually ...

DREAMS revealed

A few weeks ago, I blogged about the Boteach/Steinhardt/Feldman debate on Jewish values. As I wrote, Boteach left the audience ...

Interview w/Kinky Friedman

Kinky Friedman may be best known for his run as an independent candidate in the 2006 Texas gubernatorial race, with ...

But this time, they let them stay.

From Ynet: A cruise liner carrying some 300 Jewish passengers docked in the Israeli port of Haifa on Thursday in ...

Annapolis Peace Conference

-Sarah Honig scores the idea of making generous offers to “perfidious Abbas� and labels the notion that “his current powerlessness ...

Again with the smart thing?

The American Enterprise Institute, a right-wing think-tank that has served as the home to many neoconservatives, hosted an event this ...

Perfected

ObamaGirl, aka Leah Kauffman, is back with her “wish” to be perfected just as Ann Coulter wants. It’s not nearly ...

On “Orthodox Bashing”

Last weekend’s Jewish Week contained an op-ed by Sherri Mandell that seemed to want to make a point about “Orthodox-bashing” ...