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The Next Big Idea
When philanthropist Charles Bronfman announced his intention to fund a two-year visiting chair at Brandeis for someone who could come ...
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 ...