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Coming to Israel

The US Reform movement is placing a major new emphasis on aliyah, with an explicit goal “to impact Israeli society.� ...

The Future (or Death) of Theology

The other day, Meredith blogged about Elliot Cosgrove’s Forward op-ed about the unfortunate decline of Jewish theology. But I’d like ...

Force or Diplomacy?

Israel is told, don’t end your conflict with Syria — this from Farid Ghadry, president of the Reform Party of ...

Where Have All the Theologians Gone?

The week The Forward has an op-ed from Elliot Cosgrove, a young, dynamic rabbi out of Chicago, asking “Where Have ...

From Midway to the Mideast

In the latest issue of Newsweek, NYC District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau and Frank M. Tuerkheimer, a professor at the ...

Kurt Waldheim, Dead at 88

This just in: Kurt Waldheim, whose legacy as U.N. secretary-general was overshadowed by revelations that he belonged to a German ...

Louise Nevelson

Scavenger Par Excellence, Wandering Jewess.

Is the PA Disbanding?

GAZA TURMOIL: Danny Rubinstein noting that “recent events we have been witnessing in Gaza are actually the disbanding of Palestinian ...

Don’t call it a comeback

Yesterday Shimon Peres was elected the ninth president of Israel, while the Labor party voted Ehud Barak into it’s top ...

Dealing with the God Question

Secular humanistic parents and educators face unique challenges in speaking to kids about God.

Come fly the unfriendly skies

El Al has announced that it will be naming a new Boeing 777-200 after the town Sderot. Sderot has been ...

Boycotting Israel

Earlier this month, the Anti-Defamation League ran a series of newspaper advertisements criticizing British organizations for their proposed boycotts of ...