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Founder of Humanistic Judaism Dead at 79.
Rabbi Sherwin Wine, who founded the Secular Humanistic Judaism movement, died in a car crash this weekend. He was 79. ...
Sam, the Banana Man
Before there were Halliburton and Exxon-Mobil, there was United Fruit.I’ve been spending a lot of my spare time over the ...
Paying for Justice…and Therapy
The other day I blogged about my gut discomfort with the class-action lawsuit brought by children of Holocaust survivors, asking ...
Religion in Israel
A look at the extensive splits within the religious establishment in Israel, and their increasing inability to deal with challenges ...
Jews for Jesus: Interview w/Shmuel Herzfeld
Last week, NPR’s “Heard on the Street” featured a “debate” between Jew for Jesus Larry Dubin and Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld ...
Who will pay for my therapy?
I don’t want to judge people who have been traumatized by Holocaust-survivor parents, but I’m not sure I can help ...
Syria and the North
Pointing out that “The Golan … has been Israeli for 40 years, double the time it was in Syria’s hands..… ...
The End of the Jewish Newspaper?
A story came across my desk today discussing the fact that Jewish newspapers are fighting to stay alive in a ...
A Dead Horse Rigged to a Land Mine?
Now is the time to strike a deal with the Palestinians, says Yossi Beilin, because “the Palestinians have a pragmatic ...
Catholic Supremacy
Yesterday, for the second time in a week, Pope Benedict XVI reversed positions of the Second Vatican Council, which in ...
Positive change for USCJ?
Even the Conservative Movement has jumped on to the eco-friendly bandwagon. This week, The Washington Post highlighted the new seal ...