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Let There Be Light

I generally don’t enjoy people who obsess about the media being anti-Israel, but this egregious case of bias is rather ...

Do They Need A Program Director?

This past week, The Simpsons featured the Hillel from Marge’s college days in a flashback. So what else does Hillel ...

Civilized Discourse

-Rabbi Avi Shafran takes a dour view of blogs: responsible blogs, in the Jewish realm are “decidedly in the minority. ...

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 ...

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