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Name That War
Reuters reports: Israel is trying to put a name to the war it waged against Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrillas last year, ...
The Private Heschel
Susannnah Heschel has a wonderful article in the Jewish Week about her father, Abraham Joshua Heschel, in which she writes ...
Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
Jean Baudrillard, the maddeningly-obscure, but prophetic, French philosopher died earlier this week at the age of 77.Baudrillard wasn’t Jewish. But ...
Morbid Jews
The other night I went to an Emerging Jewish Writers panel/reading as part of the Steinhardt Jewish Heritage Festival. The ...
UJ Accepts Gay Rabbinical Students
As expected, the University of Judaism made the first practical move toward integrating the Conservative movement’s new responsum on homosexuality: ...
Female Suicide Bombers
Slate asks the question on everyone’s mind: “If male martyrs can expect to find 72 virgin maidens in paradise when ...
Confronting Jewish Violence
Today is Shushan Purim, the day Purim is celebrated in cities that were “walled” at the time of Joshua. Most ...