History
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 ...
Readers Respond
This week’s Jewish Week includes three letters to the editor about Rabbi Michael Broyde’s article that I blogged about yesteday. ...
Dear Rabbi Broyde
In last week’s Jewish Week, Rabbi Michael Broyde — rabbi of the Young Israel of Toco Hills (Atlanta) and professor ...
(Guest)blogging from JOFA
The title of the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance’s 10th anniversary conference (held this weekend in New York) was Passion and ...
This Week in Zionism
For me, this week has yielded some very productive thinking about Israel and Zionism. In addition to the blogging and ...
Israel’s Soul
As I mentioned yesterday, Alvin Rosenfeld begins his essay “Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism” with several harrowing pages ...
That Anti-Semitism Article
I know I’m a week late, but I finally got around to reading Alvin Rosenfeld’s AJC article “Progressive Jewish Thought ...