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Don’t call it a comeback
Yesterday Shimon Peres was elected the ninth president of Israel, while the Labor party voted Ehud Barak into it’s top ...
Dealing with the God Question
Secular humanistic parents and educators face unique challenges in speaking to kids about God.
Come fly the unfriendly skies
El Al has announced that it will be naming a new Boeing 777-200 after the town Sderot. Sderot has been ...
Boycotting Israel
Earlier this month, the Anti-Defamation League ran a series of newspaper advertisements criticizing British organizations for their proposed boycotts of ...
Poverty & Racism in Israel
POVERTY AND WORK ISSUES: Workforce participation of Ethiopian men aged 22-64 has fallen substantially in the past 10 years. (Haaretz) ...
Hebrew school revisited
PEJE’s new study on the impact of Jewish day schools has garnered a fair amount of attention from the Jewish ...
Finkelstein Denied Tenure
The battle is over. Dershowitz has won. Norman Finkelstein needs a new job. I’m certainly not a Finkelstein devotee, but ...
Pack of Lies or Ugly Truth?
ISRAEL–LAND AND RESIDENTIAL ISSUES: “We are being sent abroad, quite simply, to lie,” says a senior Israeli diplomat serving in ...
Are you Jewish?
So while sitting at the offices of MyJewishLearning, we heard a knock on the door. Low and behold it was ...
Meir Kahane vs. Ehud Olmert
I stumbled upon this fascinating video (below) of Meir Kahane debating Ehud Olmert on ABC News (Nightline?) with Ted Koppel. ...
33rd and 3rd… and 2nd Ave
According to food blog eater.com and neighborhood chatter ,the Second Avenue Deli will be reopening on 33rd street between 3rd ...
Six Day War
From Americans for Peace Now: The war that broke out on June 5, 1967 radically changed the Arab-Israeli conflict: It ...