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Come fly the unfriendly skies

El Al has announced that it will be naming a new Boeing 777-200 after the town Sderot. Sderot has been ...

Boycotting Israel

Earlier this month, the Anti-Defamation League ran a series of newspaper advertisements criticizing British organizations for their proposed boycotts of ...

Poverty & Racism in Israel

POVERTY AND WORK ISSUES: Workforce participation of Ethiopian men aged 22-64 has fallen substantially in the past 10 years. (Haaretz) ...

Hebrew school revisited

PEJE’s new study on the impact of Jewish day schools has garnered a fair amount of attention from the Jewish ...

Finkelstein Denied Tenure

The battle is over. Dershowitz has won. Norman Finkelstein needs a new job. I’m certainly not a Finkelstein devotee, but ...

Pack of Lies or Ugly Truth?

ISRAEL–LAND AND RESIDENTIAL ISSUES: “We are being sent abroad, quite simply, to lie,” says a senior Israeli diplomat serving in ...

Are you Jewish?

So while sitting at the offices of MyJewishLearning, we heard a knock on the door. Low and behold it was ...

Independent Minyan Study

Much has been written about the independent minyan movement (including several articles in the last issue of Zeek). But is ...

The Holocaust: A Political Asset?

THE HOLOCAUST: Amira Hass argues that Israel has turned the Holocaust “into a political asset� that “serves Israel primarily in ...

Batteries not included

This week Gizmodo included the Say-a-blessing key chain among its featured products. The device has eight buttons with icons representing ...

Who were the Rabbis?

My old friend Rabbi Jonathan Duker has just published a new book, The Spirits Behind the Law, which profiles the ...

Meir Kahane vs. Ehud Olmert

I stumbled upon this fascinating video (below) of Meir Kahane debating Ehud Olmert on ABC News (Nightline?) with Ted Koppel. ...

33rd and 3rd… and 2nd Ave

According to food blog eater.com and neighborhood chatter ,the Second Avenue Deli will be reopening on 33rd street between 3rd ...

Six Day War

From Americans for Peace Now: The war that broke out on June 5, 1967 radically changed the Arab-Israeli conflict: It ...

Woody Allen, Anarchist

Just six days until the publication of Mere Anarchy, Woody Allen’s first book in more than a quarter century. From ...

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