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UJ Accepts Gay Rabbinical Students
As expected, the University of Judaism made the first practical move toward integrating the Conservative movement’s new responsum on homosexuality: ...
Female Suicide Bombers
Slate asks the question on everyone’s mind: “If male martyrs can expect to find 72 virgin maidens in paradise when ...
Confronting Jewish Violence
Today is Shushan Purim, the day Purim is celebrated in cities that were “walled” at the time of Joshua. Most ...
Campus Wars
Today’s New York Times looks at the latest battle over the Middle East on college campuses: a documentary film, Obsesssion: ...
Evangelicals and Israel
Obviously, a lot has been written about evangelical support for Israel. Yet from all the reading and talking I’ve done ...
Not So Good With the Math
There have been murmurings since December that the UJC’s National Jewish Population Survey was way off. With the publication of a ...
Money in the Academy
The Jewish Week is reporting that major donors at Brandeis University are pulling their financial support to show their displeasure ...
Jewish Parenting
What should you do when your son refuses to go to Hebrew school? Or when your daughter asks you about ...
More Science & Judaism
For those of you who still can’t get enough science and Judaism reading, check out Noah Efron’s recently published Judaism ...
Readers Respond
This week’s Jewish Week includes three letters to the editor about Rabbi Michael Broyde’s article that I blogged about yesteday. ...