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The Eighth Day of the Week

A community’s sacred texts shed light on its beliefs and values. This is obvious when it comes to liturgy.Hence the ...

Israel & Gaza

-Diverse analysis on the increasingly urgent issue of whether and how Israel should invade Gaza: International Herald Tribune Bernard Avishai ...

Israel’s Government

-David Kimche makes the case for Tzipi Livni taking over leadership of Israel. (The Jerusalem Post) -Nehemia Shtrasler argues that ...

From the Academy: Kissing Kabbalists

In this installment of “From the Academy,� Dr. Joel Hecker, Chair of the Department of Modern Jewish Civilization and Associate ...

At Least It Wasn’t Matzah

From the Jerusalem Post: A Haifa chocolate factory became the unlikely scene of a midnight heist when robbers broke in ...

Secular Humanistic Judaism

-A look at 32 year old Rabbi Adam Chalom, the new leader of Humanistic Judaism. The Society for Humanistic Judaism ...

Sharon Turns 80

Today, we’re reminded that — amazingly — former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon is still alive, still in a coma ...

Leave my food alone.

It was bad enough when Dunkin’ Dount became the country’s largest seller of bagels. But now Kraft has to go ...

Send in the Jews

TMZ’s posted an entertaining video about former Israeli soldiers using their skills to protect the likes of Britney Spears and ...

Oy! The Unaffiliated…

It seems we Jews are not alone. The unaffiliated are everywhere!!! From the NY Times: More than 16 percent of ...

Random Writers

Writing in The Independent about Shalom Auslander’s Foreskin’s Lament, reviewer William Sutcliffe notes: If there is a defining thread that ...

Conservative/Masorti Judaism

-A report on Conservative Judaism’s annual Rabbinical Assembly convention, which had the theme “Religion in the Public Square.â€? (Washington Jewish ...

Super Bowl, Super Sized

Good news for those synagogues who host Super Bowl-watching parties. The NFL reversed a previous ruling that prohibited houses of ...

Obama and the Jews…Again

It seems the campaign to paint Barack Obama as a candidate that’s bad for the Jews/Israel is not over. I ...

Too Early

Last night I was at the grocery store, stocking up before the snow storm hit New York. I saw multiple ...

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