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Condemning Violence
Several blogs have picked up the Haaretz report about 5 ultra-Orthodox men who apparently assaulted a woman and an Israeli ...
Elie Wiesel Digs Jesus
Last night, Elie Wiesel began his lecture at the 92nd Street Y with a few words about Jean-Marie Lustiger, the ...
Gaza and the West Bank
-The Palestinian Authority is paving a four-lane highway inside Israel’s sovereign territory. You’ve never heard of this? That, says Yossi ...
Auslander: My Two Cents
Shalom Auslander’s memoir Foreskin’s Lament was published last week and seems to be selling quite well on Amazon. For those ...
Coming to Israel
-Michael Freund decries the fact that Subbotnik Jews are allowed to make aliya under the Law of Return “only as ...
And Now, A Word From Our Sponsor
Guest blogger Rabbi Jennifer Krause is the author of The Answer: Making Sense of Life, One Question at a Time.Dear ...
What Should Israel Do?
-The head of the national Religious party Benny Elon has proposed his solution: Israel would take sovereignty over the entire ...
Does God Read?
Maybe God really isn’t great. If He were so great, wouldn’t He have made sure Christopher Hitchens wasn’t nominated for ...
Lay Kodesh
Yesterday I blogged about JOI’s Big Tent Judaism initiative. As I got to thinking more about problem of being welcoming ...
Jews in Far-Flung Places
-Myanmar’s 20 remaining Jews fear for their small community. (Ynet)-The Jewish life in Taiwan, one dominated by Syrian Jews, is ...
Refusing to Play
Iranian-born German soccer player Ashkan Dejagah is making headlines for electing to skip his team’s upcoming match in Tel Aviv. ...
Big Tent Judaism
This week, Rabbi Kerry Olitzky of the Jewish Outreach Institute, along with Rabbi Elliot Dorf of the American Jewish University, ...