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The Idiots Guide To…
I love Amazon. One can buy just about anything and everything. I personally use it for dog bones, Muppet DVDs, ...
Defining Charity
While Palestinians continue to battle each other for control of Gaza, another battle involving Hamas is taking place on American ...
How to Judge People
If there’s one thing the Jewish community is all-too often missing, it’s self-criticism. Groups and movements tend to blame other ...
Founder of Humanistic Judaism Dead at 79.
Rabbi Sherwin Wine, who founded the Secular Humanistic Judaism movement, died in a car crash this weekend. He was 79. ...
Jews for Jesus: Interview w/Shmuel Herzfeld
Last week, NPR’s “Heard on the Street” featured a “debate” between Jew for Jesus Larry Dubin and Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld ...
Catholic Supremacy
Yesterday, for the second time in a week, Pope Benedict XVI reversed positions of the Second Vatican Council, which in ...
The Joy of Sects
In an effort to get smarter and diversify my knowledge, I’ve recently decided to try and read Wikipedia’s daily featured ...
What’s wrong with this headline?
Today’s Jerusalem Post had an article that began as follows: Woman rabbi flies to US to preach aliya It’s not ...
Chutzpah Alert
Ynet News recently reported the following story about Rabbi Avraham Yosef: During a radio show on which he replies to ...
Debating Peoplehood
Over at Jewcy, editor Joey Kurtzman and JTS provost Jack Wertheimer recently concluded a heated debate about the state of ...