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I Wonder What’s On the Menu
From JTA: Nefesh B’Nefesh set up a large-screen TV in its Jerusalem offices for expatriate Americans to watch the Super ...
Israeli Demographics
–The total fertility rate in the country’s ultra-Orthodox community has dropped sharply in the past several years, e.g. in the ...
Reading Mordecai Kaplan
I stumbled upon an interesting passage in Mordecai Kaplan’s Judaism As a Civilization that articulates one of the pressing questions ...
Let There Be Light
I generally don’t enjoy people who obsess about the media being anti-Israel, but this egregious case of bias is rather ...
Do They Need A Program Director?
This past week, The Simpsons featured the Hillel from Marge’s college days in a flashback.So what else does Hillel International ...
Civilized Discourse
-Rabbi Avi Shafran takes a dour view of blogs: responsible blogs, in the Jewish realm are “decidedly in the minority. ...
The Next Big Idea
When philanthropist Charles Bronfman announced his intention to fund a two-year visiting chair at Brandeis for someone who could come ...
Finally Good News From Hollywood
MSNBC is reporting that Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have left the Kabbalah kraze: “Ashton and Demi used to have ...
Israel Academia Monitor
Last week, YNet reprinted an article by Aaron Klein, which purports to be about anti-Zionist positions held by Israeli academics, ...
Young Jews and Israel
Last fall there was a good deal of blog chatter and press coverage about a study released by Steve M. ...
Exodus Morality
Whether or not we know the suffering of the slaves, we are commanded to act as if we do.
The non-Orthodox in Israel
-A conference in Israel looks at the Reform Movement’s failure to make significant inroads in Israeli society. (The Jerusalem Post)-Rabbi ...