Mixed Multitudes
Can a Jewish State Be Truly Democratic?
For those of you in the New York area looking for something to do tomorrow night (Feb 27), I’ll be ...
Campus Wars
Today’s New York Times looks at the latest battle over the Middle East on college campuses: a documentary film, Obsesssion: ...
The Book of Mensch
Hirhurim’s Gil Student has just published a review in the Jewish Press of Imrei Baruch (The Sayings of Baruch), a ...
Walter Benjamin’s Mix Tape
A few weeks ago, I blogged about Walter Benjamin, the great German Jewish intellectual, whose writings have become canonical in ...
The Inspired Kitchen
The latest installment of Adeena Sussman’s MJL food column “The Inspired Kitchenâ€? is now available. The newest recipe: Mandelbrot – the ...
The Guru of Global Warming
If you haven’t yet peeked at David Plotz’s Slate feature Blogging the Bible, yesterday’s edition is a good place to ...
Evangelicals and Israel
Obviously, a lot has been written about evangelical support for Israel. Yet from all the reading and talking I’ve done ...
Chief Rabbi Says “No” to Fur
Cold temperatures have finally arrived in much of the United States, but Israel’s Ashkenazic chief rabbi has just nixed the ...
Not So Good With the Math
There have been murmurings since December that the UJC’s National Jewish Population Survey was way off. With the publication of a ...
Money in the Academy
The Jewish Week is reporting that major donors at Brandeis University are pulling their financial support to show their displeasure ...