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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..… ...

French Jews and Anti-Semitism

Will a new president's election bring it to an end?

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 ...

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