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Peoplehood is so vacant, it’s vacuous
In last week’s Forward, Jay Michaelson entered the Peoplehood debate with force, simultaneously acknowledging his own sense of connection to ...
Israel’s Government
-Is Israel’s government becoming a gerontocracy? (Haaretz)-Isi Leibler says that not only “our prime minister is a failed leader,� but ...
Shut Up, I’m Talking
Today’s edition of the Very Short List features Gregory Levey’s memoir Shut Up, I’m Talking: And Other Diplomacy Lessons I ...
Muslims and Jews
-As Jewish-Muslim interfaith efforts intensify, critics say that Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is selective in which acts of terrorism ...
People or Religion
In honor of the debate I had with Ariel Beery this week about distinctions between Jewish Peoplehood and the Jewish ...
What’s a shababnik?
I tend to think I have a fairly good grasp of Jewish lingo, but this YNet article on a real-life ...
The West Bank
-The illegal Shvut Ami outpost, built in part on privately owned Palestinian land, has been evacuated nine times, and now ...
Israel’s Minorities
-In the wake of blast that severely injured 15-year-old youth belonging to their community, Messianic Jews speak out against ill ...
Christians and Jews
-An “observant Catholic with Jewish tendencies, and … a Jew sobered up from a drugged out mysticism� combine to write ...