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Supplementary Education Suffering
This week’s homepage features a “Back to Hebrew School” special, with an article on how to choose the best school ...
Jews and Money
A substantial look at how the ailing economy means that donations to social action agencies are down as demands are ...
Kafkafkafkakfa
Our newest batch of articles includes an essay of mine on Franz Kafka, a Prague writer from the turn of ...
Literature Rodeo
From our friends at Jbooks. The Daily Show’s resident Brit John Oliver sounds off on apocalyptic literature. Eschatology and comedy: ...
A Hairy Situation
As if Agriprocessors/Rubashkin’s isn’t keeping PETA’s hands full enough, Italian animal activists, citing Pope Benedict’s well-known love of cats, are ...
Snoozing on the Shoulders of Giants
This post on Jewschool got me thinking. It’s a pretty common story in our days: a Jewish teenager’s grandfather died, ...
My Team
As you might have guessed, I’m a bit obsessed with the Olympics. They provide for hours of fun and excitement ...
The Madrid Interfaith Parley
Ari Alexander guest blogged from the World Conference on Dialogue in Madrid, organized by the Muslim World League under the ...
Eyes to See with, Photos to Kvell over
Score one (more) for budding innovative technologies in Israel: at Beit Ha’iver, the Center of the Blind, in Herzliya, a ...
The Synagogue Review
A New Jersey Conservative synagogue finds that instrumental music draws crowds for a Friday night service. (NJ Jewish News)Five synagogues ...
The Hope (free mp3!)
My Hasidic father-in-law, after being initiated as the president of his local branch of United Israel Appeal (an organization that, ...
Hostile Games
The Olympics are supposed to be a unifying event, bringing together the world for 17 days of friendly competition. Yet ...
Olympic Culture Hacking
Meredith pointed out that Jews and Israelis are winning Olympic medals all over the place, and then asked, “Why do ...
Haisdic ‘Fixer’ Runs for City Council
Do you ever notice how, for a paper with so much anti-Israel tactics, the New York Times sure reports a ...
The Onion takes on Postville
The Agriprocessors story continues to show up in newspapers of record. Today’s addition: The Onion . In its “American Voices” ...