Mixed Multitudes

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Positive change for USCJ?

Even the Conservative Movement has jumped on to the eco-friendly bandwagon. This week, The Washington Post highlighted the new seal ...

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 ...

Independent, Jewish & Frankly Feminist

Be sure to check out the new face of The Lilith Blog. Contributers include Lilith‘s assistant editor Mel Weiss, Rebecca ...

Jew too can post videos

Jewster, jdate meet your newest online buddy: JewTube.Launched last week, it promises lots of time spent browsing video classics such ...

Jewish Genius Revisited

Back in April I blogged about Charles Murray’s Commentary article in which he theorizes about the sources of the supposed ...

You Are Not a Stranger

I’m not sure I recommend any volume of short stories more than Adam Haslett’s You Are Not a Stranger Here. ...

Food Glorious Food

Eating kosher in Rome, Italy, is not really a problem, with “five full restaurants, eight fast-food places of various kinds, ...

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 ...

Ozick Responds

In this week’s Jewish Week, Cynthia Ozick responds to the newspaper’s two scathing critiques (one by Gary Rosenblatt, the other ...

Crime & Violence in Israel

According to Betzalel Kahn, “Policemen in Jerusalem, under direct orders … have been seeding violence and wreaking destruction aimed at ...

Stuck in a Pickle

When I was younger, my mother warned me that if I ate too many pickles, I would turn into one. ...

The Bedouins of Israel

Rahat, the largest Bedouin settlement (40,000 residents, with another 10,000 nearby) has only one branch bank; no other bank will ...

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