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Finally Good News From Hollywood
MSNBC is reporting that Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have left the Kabbalah kraze: “Ashton and Demi used to have ...
Israel Academia Monitor
Last week, YNet reprinted an article by Aaron Klein, which purports to be about anti-Zionist positions held by Israeli academics, ...
Young Jews and Israel
Last fall there was a good deal of blog chatter and press coverage about a study released by Steve M. ...
Exodus Morality
Whether or not we know the suffering of the slaves, we are commanded to act as if we do.
The non-Orthodox in Israel
-A conference in Israel looks at the Reform Movement’s failure to make significant inroads in Israeli society. (The Jerusalem Post)-Rabbi ...
From the Academy: Volume I
Welcome to the first installment of “From the Academy,” in which I (will hopefully) check in with Jewish Studies professors ...
The Feminist Moment of Truth (& More)
-With Ms. Magazine rejecting an ad celebrating three Israeli women leaders, Phyllis Chesler accuses “This is a feminism that has ...
The Spinka Scandal
The ever-insightful Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein has an interesting and sobering post over at Cross-Currents about the Spinka Hasid tax fraud ...
God is not spontaneous
There’s an old saying “Man plans and God laughs,” but recently I realized that, in the Bible, it’s God who ...
Heeb, Seriously
No joke. Heeb magazine’s humor editor David Deutsch takes on Brandeis professor Jonathan Sarna in an op-ed in this week’s ...
West Bank Outposts
–An overview of the unauthorized settlement outposts in the West Bank finds there to be over 100 at present. Ariel ...
The Rule of Law in Israel
-In a number of cities “intransigent registrars and rabbis” are refusing to recognize state-sanctioned conversions to Judaism, and it is ...