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California Love
In one of his hit songs, California Love, the late Tupac rapped, “It’s all good, from Diego to the Bay,” ...
How to Judge People
If there’s one thing the Jewish community is all-too often missing, it’s self-criticism. Groups and movements tend to blame other ...
Founder of Humanistic Judaism Dead at 79.
Rabbi Sherwin Wine, who founded the Secular Humanistic Judaism movement, died in a car crash this weekend. He was 79. ...
Sam, the Banana Man
Before there were Halliburton and Exxon-Mobil, there was United Fruit.I’ve been spending a lot of my spare time over the ...
Paying for Justice…and Therapy
The other day I blogged about my gut discomfort with the class-action lawsuit brought by children of Holocaust survivors, asking ...
Religion in Israel
A look at the extensive splits within the religious establishment in Israel, and their increasing inability to deal with challenges ...
Jews for Jesus: Interview w/Shmuel Herzfeld
Last week, NPR’s “Heard on the Street” featured a “debate” between Jew for Jesus Larry Dubin and Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld ...
Who will pay for my therapy?
I don’t want to judge people who have been traumatized by Holocaust-survivor parents, but I’m not sure I can help ...
Syria and the North
Pointing out that “The Golan … has been Israeli for 40 years, double the time it was in Syria’s hands..… ...
The End of the Jewish Newspaper?
A story came across my desk today discussing the fact that Jewish newspapers are fighting to stay alive in a ...