Mixed Multitudes
Comic strips, redux
I’ve blogged about Eli Valley’s comics here before. Now the Jewish writer/communal professional has created web site dedicated solely to ...
Evacuation from Hebron
-A first-hand account of the evacuation of the families from Hebron. (The Jewish Press)-Gideon Levy argues that the evacuation from ...
Jewish Genetic Diseases
This week’s Forward includes their annual guide to Jewish genetic diseases. With advances in technology and medicine, the number of ...
Baruch Dayan Emet
Grace Paley, a wonderful writer and fierce social activist has died. She was 84. The MJL article about Paley can ...
Where were the Jews?
In this week’s Jewish Week, our friend Mik Moore from jspot considers the lack of Jewish representation at the YearlyKos ...
Berch is Back
-There may be as much as 4 billion dollars worth of natural gas offshore of Gaza. Why has it not ...
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Treif-tasting Fish
We all get cravings. There’s the usual–chocolate, pizza, Chinese food. The childlike–macaroni and cheese, peanut butter and jelly. The Jewish–pickles, ...
Today’s Jewel of Elul — Teach Them To Swim
Today’s Jewel of Elul from Craig and Co. is by Jerome Groopman, a professor of medicine at Harvard and a ...
Jewish Vulnerability: A Novel
I finally started reading Michael Chabon’s new novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, and so far, as virtually all the reviews ...
All of Us or All of Them?
Recently the Union for Reform Judaism published a new edition of Kulanu (All of Us), a resource guide for LGBT ...
The Pressure Cooker
Don’t get me wrong. Academic pressure is nothing new. Case in point: when I was in third grade my teacher ...
Where’s Big Bird When You Need Him?
“The cats here are asleep- the poor, wretched, imprisoned cats. I feel like abusing them.”Just another classic quote from Tomorrow’s ...