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Operation Screwball
Apparently, there’s a new grassroots movement to protest the ultra-Orthodox, anti-Zionist, Iran-friendly Neturei Karta. Its code name: Operation Screwball. (The ...
Renewal Rabbis
This just in from JTA: Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, founder and leader of Jewish Renewal, ordained two rabbis, two rabbinic pastors ...
Free Will Today
The New York Times last week had an interesting article on free will and the current scientific debate about whether ...
Making It
In my latest column for the Jerusalem Post, I re-examine Norman Podhoretz’s Making It, which will celebrate its 40th anniversary ...
Yeshiva Education & Intermarriage
At some point I got signed up for a “Daily Halacha” email by a Rabbi Eli Mansour. Usually, I’m most ...
Spiritual Technologies
Ira Rifkin has an interesting article in this week’s Jewish Week about the Tiferet Institute’s recent conference on Kabbalah for ...
Literary Feuds
On the Daily Shvitz yesterday, Elisa Albert referred to an amazing article from the New York Times last month about ...
If Tony Blair is an Octopus
I only just stumbled upon Terry Eagleton’s review of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion in the London Review of Books ...