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Another way of avoiding American politics.

Great news for those hoping the upcoming Israeli elections will decrease corruption by government officials. Aryeh Deri is running for ...

Israeli Defense Forces

The complex set of lessons imparted at the IDF’s Officer Training School near Mitzpe Ramon. (Jerusalem Post)Only 52% of Israeli ...

Permitted graffiti

I received this from a (non-Jewish) teacher at a school that’s largely not Jewish. It’s a classroom experiment — and, ...

Sweet Home Alabama?

Yesterday, I had never heard of Dothan, Alabama.  Today, I might be considering a move there.  Larry Blumberg and his ...

God on Trial

You know that story wherein a group of rabbis in a concentration camp assembles a beit din — a team ...

Religious. Gay. You’ve heard this, right?

Earlier this year, the Israeli website HOD launched. It’s a Hebrew acronym that roughly translates to “religious and gay.” It’s ...

Ultra-Orthodox Activism

On the right-wing Haredi news site Vos Iz Neias, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz takes the Orthodox world to task on the ...

Sarah Palin *hearts* Jews for Jesus

While not necessarily true, the reports are leaking out: Sarah Palin is a little more, uh, fundamentalist, than her “pit ...

Funding Haredi Education

The Knesset has passed a law saying that Haredi high schools can legally get funding without teaching the core curriculum, ...

Israel’s Parties

Yoel Marcus asks of Benjamin Netanyahu, “What is the secret of this man, who flubbed up as prime minister, who ...

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