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Ultra-Orthodox Activism
On the right-wing Haredi news site Vos Iz Neias, Rabbi Yakov Horowitz takes the Orthodox world to task on the ...
Sarah Palin *hearts* Jews for Jesus
While not necessarily true, the reports are leaking out: Sarah Palin is a little more, uh, fundamentalist, than her “pit ...
Jewish Magic
A couple of weeks ago, a California man named Naftoli Smolyansky disappeared during a boating trip after jumping in the ...
Judgment Day
It’s the month of Elul, the time when we begin the introspection that culminates with the High Holidays. So I ...
Funding Haredi Education
The Knesset has passed a law saying that Haredi high schools can legally get funding without teaching the core curriculum, ...
Israel’s Parties
Yoel Marcus asks of Benjamin Netanyahu, “What is the secret of this man, who flubbed up as prime minister, who ...
P(r)aying for a Blessing
On the way out of work yesterday, I was a little dazed — possibly by the sun, possibly by the ...
Coming to Israel
The Jewish Agency releases a new plan for attracting 1,000 American high-tech professionals to Israel by 2010, but “Just 30 ...
Africans, Emigrating to Israel, Shot by Egypt
NPR reports that refugees from Sudan, Eritrea and Kenya, fleeing the economic and health crises in their own countries, are ...
The Jews of India
A recent issue of the Economist had a fascinating review of Edna Fernandes’ new book The Last Jews of Kerala: ...
A Vice President, a Sacred Space
I went home for Shabbat. Home meaning my parents’ house, which despite knowing I shouldn’t — I have an apartment ...
On the Ground Peace Efforts
“The whole idea of Chefs for Peace is to show that here we are, working in one kitchen, Muslim, Christian ...