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-Global warming notwithstanding, Israeli rainfall statistics have remained essentially unchanged in the 60 years they have been tracked. (Haaretz) -Preserving ...

-A mathematician makes the argument that the amazing coincidences, “miracles,� that people take as evidence for the existence of God ...

JTA is reporting that an ancient Jewish cemetery found in Jamaica contains headstones with pictures of skulls and crossbones. People ...

The Wikipedia entry on Muhammad contains a 15th century illustration of the Muslim prophet preaching the Quran. But iconography like ...

In the second installment of “From the Academy,” Dr. David Shneer, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center ...

-Sayed Kashua, an Israeli-born Arab journalist, and author has created a prime-time situation comedy which “deals with Israeli society’s prejudices ...

Tonight the New York Jewish Week is hosting an event called “Is the Internet Good for the Jews?” When you ...

Our friends Aharon and Ariel want you to know that applications are now being accepted for the Summer 2008 PresenTense ...

There’s an old story about a Jewish mother who sees a young man with dirt on his face. She goes ...

Rabbi Andy Bachman, an engaging and innovative Reform rabbi, recently blogged about those people who come to say kaddish at ...

-David Shasha sets forth that “Sephardic culture, which espouses an outlook of tolerance and coexistence…could speak in a sophisticated and ...

In anticipation of today’s primaries, Rabbi Yehuda Levin, spokesman for the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the U.S. and Canada ...

-Aaron Klein argues that Robert Malley, a principal Obama foreign policy adviser, “penned a well-circulated New York Review of Books ...

From JTA: Nefesh B’Nefesh set up a large-screen TV in its Jerusalem offices for expatriate Americans to watch the Super ...

–The total fertility rate in the country’s ultra-Orthodox community has dropped sharply in the past several years, e.g. in the ...