History
A Hairy Situation
As if Agriprocessors/Rubashkin’s isn’t keeping PETA’s hands full enough, Italian animal activists, citing Pope Benedict’s well-known love of cats, are ...
The Madrid Interfaith Parley
Ari Alexander guest blogged from the World Conference on Dialogue in Madrid, organized by the Muslim World League under the ...
Eyes to See with, Photos to Kvell over
Score one (more) for budding innovative technologies in Israel: at Beit Ha’iver, the Center of the Blind, in Herzliya, a ...
The Synagogue Review
A New Jersey Conservative synagogue finds that instrumental music draws crowds for a Friday night service. (NJ Jewish News)Five synagogues ...
The Hope (free mp3!)
My Hasidic father-in-law, after being initiated as the president of his local branch of United Israel Appeal (an organization that, ...
Hostile Games
The Olympics are supposed to be a unifying event, bringing together the world for 17 days of friendly competition. Yet ...
Haisdic ‘Fixer’ Runs for City Council
Do you ever notice how, for a paper with so much anti-Israel tactics, the New York Times sure reports a ...
The First Jewish President
Toni Morrison famously referred to Bill Clinton as the “first black president,” writing that he displayed “almost every trope of ...
Rabbi Steinsaltz Takes on the Olympics
Remember when all of Jewish Law was ruled by a committee of 71 judges, each of whom were able to ...