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From the Academy: Volume I

Welcome to the first installment of “From the Academy,” in which I (will hopefully) check in with Jewish Studies professors ...

The Feminist Moment of Truth (& More)

-With Ms. Magazine rejecting an ad celebrating three Israeli women leaders, Phyllis Chesler accuses “This is a feminism that has ...

The Spinka Scandal

The ever-insightful Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein has an interesting and sobering post over at Cross-Currents about the Spinka Hasid tax fraud ...

God is not spontaneous

There’s an old saying “Man plans and God laughs,” but recently I realized that, in the Bible, it’s God who ...

Heeb, Seriously

No joke. Heeb magazine’s humor editor David Deutsch takes on Brandeis professor Jonathan Sarna in an op-ed in this week’s ...

West Bank Outposts

–An overview of the unauthorized settlement outposts in the West Bank finds there to be over 100 at present. Ariel ...

The Rule of Law in Israel

-In a number of cities “intransigent registrars and rabbis” are refusing to recognize state-sanctioned conversions to Judaism, and it is ...

Watch the Money

Leave it to the Federation of Silicon Valley to figure out how to use technology compellingly and effectively.  This cute video ...

Antisemitism and Antizionism

-April Rosenblum, a 27-year-old progressive activist, has put out a remarkable pamphlet “Making Resistance to Antisemitism Part of All of ...

Chabad in Hebron

Lazer Gurkow recently published an article on Chabad.org about the Lubavitch presence in Hebron. Gurkow notes the apparent irony of ...

Eldridge Street Synagogue Reviewed

For more than 20 years, the Eldridge Street Project worked to restore the landmark Eldridge Street Synagogue on New York’s ...

The Real Ron Paul

Yesterday I wrote that no politician in his or her right mind would do anything “bad for the Jews.” Not ...

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