Mixed Multitudes
From Midway to the Mideast
In the latest issue of Newsweek, NYC District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau and Frank M. Tuerkheimer, a professor at the ...
Kurt Waldheim, Dead at 88
This just in: Kurt Waldheim, whose legacy as U.N. secretary-general was overshadowed by revelations that he belonged to a German ...
Is the PA Disbanding?
GAZA TURMOIL: Danny Rubinstein noting that “recent events we have been witnessing in Gaza are actually the disbanding of Palestinian ...
Don’t call it a comeback
Yesterday Shimon Peres was elected the ninth president of Israel, while the Labor party voted Ehud Barak into it’s top ...
Jew vs. Jew
The ultra-Orthodox rabbinical court, Haredi Badatz, placed a curse on both the participants in the upcoming Jerusalem Gay Pride parade ...
Come fly the unfriendly skies
El Al has announced that it will be naming a new Boeing 777-200 after the town Sderot. Sderot has been ...
Boycotting Israel
Earlier this month, the Anti-Defamation League ran a series of newspaper advertisements criticizing British organizations for their proposed boycotts of ...
Poverty & Racism in Israel
POVERTY AND WORK ISSUES: Workforce participation of Ethiopian men aged 22-64 has fallen substantially in the past 10 years. (Haaretz) ...
Hebrew school revisited
PEJE’s new study on the impact of Jewish day schools has garnered a fair amount of attention from the Jewish ...
Finkelstein Denied Tenure
The battle is over. Dershowitz has won. Norman Finkelstein needs a new job. I’m certainly not a Finkelstein devotee, but ...
Pack of Lies or Ugly Truth?
ISRAEL–LAND AND RESIDENTIAL ISSUES: “We are being sent abroad, quite simply, to lie,” says a senior Israeli diplomat serving in ...
Are you Jewish?
So while sitting at the offices of MyJewishLearning, we heard a knock on the door. Low and behold it was ...