Israel
Maccabiah Games Have Opened
The Jewish Games have officially opened in Israel. 65 countries are being represented this year. Here is a quick run ...
All the Comforts of Israel
Every time I return from a trip to Israel, I find myself craving those creature comforts like iced coffee from ...
Jewlicious: Five Years and Kicking
Five years ago today, the website Jewlicious stopped redirecting to dead air and became a living, functioning blog. Founder David ...
Peace Process in Israel
Alon Pinkas, former Israeli consul-general in the United States says “By not recognizing Israel’s Jewish character, Palestinians exhibit potential irredentist ...
Water Issues
Much attention has been given to the use of “gray water,” but there are many different forms of gray water, ...
Interview with Shifra Shomron, Author of Grains of Sand: The Fall of Neve Dekalim
Shifra Shomron’s novel Grains of Sand: The Fall of Neve Dekalim tells the story of Efrat, a teenage girl living ...
Taking the Messiah out of the Three Weeks (and Putting Joy In)
Today is the 17th of Tammuz, the day when five big catastrophes happened in Judaism:* Moses smashed the original Ten ...
I’ll Be At Home Eating Worms
I’m getting very very close to the end of the 11 months of saying Kaddish for my mother, and I ...
History and Archaeology
The Dead Sea Scrolls, claims Rahel Elior, do not constitute a lost Essene library, but rather a Jerusalemite library of ...
Evangelical Tractate Bonanza, or, My Christian-Take-on-Jewish-Holidays Learning
Secret disclosure #481516: I like to collect evangelical Christian tractates.Since I’ve become a parent and gotten a regular gig — ...
Israel & the Media
Whether the BBC is pro-Israel or anti-Israel may well depend on what time period you collect the data from–and who ...
Maccabiah Games Score a Major Coup
Michael Phelps must be too good for everybody. Why should anyone attend the World Swimming Championships just to compete for ...