History

Last fall there was a good deal of blog chatter and press coverage about a study released by Steve M. ...

-A conference in Israel looks at the Reform Movement’s failure to make significant inroads in Israeli society. (The Jerusalem Post)-Rabbi ...

-With Ms. Magazine rejecting an ad celebrating three Israeli women leaders, Phyllis Chesler accuses “This is a feminism that has ...

The ever-insightful Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein has an interesting and sobering post over at Cross-Currents about the Spinka Hasid tax fraud ...

No joke. Heeb magazine’s humor editor David Deutsch takes on Brandeis professor Jonathan Sarna in an op-ed in this week’s ...

–An overview of the unauthorized settlement outposts in the West Bank finds there to be over 100 at present. Ariel ...

-In a number of cities “intransigent registrars and rabbis” are refusing to recognize state-sanctioned conversions to Judaism, and it is ...

Leave it to the Federation of Silicon Valley to figure out how to use technology compellingly and effectively.  This cute video ...

-April Rosenblum, a 27-year-old progressive activist, has put out a remarkable pamphlet “Making Resistance to Antisemitism Part of All of ...

Lazer Gurkow recently published an article on Chabad.org about the Lubavitch presence in Hebron. Gurkow notes the apparent irony of ...