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Ari Teman - The Innovation Blog
iFarewell – Steve Jobs 1955-2011
October 5, 2011 9:16 pm0 comments

My friend called me as I was standing in line, “Did you hear the bad news?” “What!?”...

David Brog - For Zion's Sake
A Conservative U.S. Foreign Policy: The Israel Model
February 9, 2012 5:06 pm2 comments

Twin developments have converged to require an urgent re-examination of America’s role...

William Rapfogel - Voice of the Needy
Ray Kelly is Beyond Reproach Over Training Video
February 12, 2012 1:52 pm1 comment

In July 1993, I joined a group of Jewish leaders on a visit to Israel with Mayor David N....

Oliver Benjamin Karp - The World According to Karp
Martin Luther King, the Mensch (VIDEO)
January 16, 2012 7:06 pm0 comments

Martin Luther King Jr. is correctly remembered as a great American who helped his country live...

Ron Agam -

Why a Jewish Artist Recreated the Charity Box
February 2, 2012 3:18 pm2 comments

Being Jewish and an artist for me is following a family tradition that is now somehow part...

David Harris -

Twisted Twitter Chatter, The Hindu, and Jews
February 20, 2012 10:35 am2 comments

Let’s begin with the tweets themselves. From Narayan Lakshman, Washington-based correspondent...

Susan Kone -

A Special 9/11 Message
September 13, 2011 10:34 pm0 comments

On this tenth anniversary  we remembered our neighbors and colleagues lost on September 11th...

Ronn Torossian - PR, Media and the Jews
How Can Gay Activists Boycott the Jewish State?
February 20, 2012 8:25 am10 comments

Israel is the sole democracy in the Middle East, a champion of gay rights, and a place where...

Kevin Bermeister -

Jewish Peoplehood and Fantasy Sports
December 27, 2011 5:55 pm0 comments

On my walk through my local shopping strip on Saturday I overheard the florist comment that...

Yosef Abramowitz -

Solar Energy For All of Israel and Land for the Bedouins
January 24, 2012 4:01 pm3 comments

If solar energy is working for Haiti and its good enough for the kibbutzim, then certainly...

Israel

Lone Soldier - The Lone Soldier
Lone Soldier Week 18 – Raw and Rugged from Israel’s Front Lines.
July 25, 2011 9:57 am0 comments

‘Woke today at the crack of dawn for another day of drills.  My legs were already...

David Bratslavsky - Street Smart Politics
Western Nations Need to Confront Propaganda of Allies in the Middle East
February 15, 2012 11:21 am0 comments

How should we react when AIDS, the swine flu, infertility, economic stagnation, natural disasters,...

Josh Hasten - Midwestern in the Middle East
The Bed and Breakfast for Terrorists
January 24, 2012 4:32 pm2 comments

Israel this week arrested Hamas “politicians” Khaled Abu-Arafa and Muhammad Totah, who...

Arik Elman - Arik Elman Blog
Liberal Montgomery County Drops Israel, Goes for FGM
February 16, 2012 11:07 am5 comments

American Jewish liberals can congratulate themselves – finally, the boycott of Israel has...

Asaf Romirowsky -

Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America
August 15, 2011 11:50 am1 comment

Why has the position of Jews at American universities deteriorated in the past decade and...

Efraim Karsh -

Betraying Ben-Gurion
December 22, 2011 9:51 pm5 comments

It is ironic that Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel’s only university...

Judy Lash Balint -

Israeli Scoffs Donuts for Charity
December 1, 2011 9:59 am3 comments

In Israel sufganiyot (donuts) appear in bakeries shortly after the end of Sukkot. No matter...

Eli Beer -

From Davos: Creating a Network of Heroes
February 1, 2012 10:55 am0 comments

From a talk delivered by the author at the World Economic Forum in Davos. As I stand here...

Jewish International

Joshua Freedman -

Swedish Fears after Suicide Bomb Attack
December 27, 2010 4:13 am0 comments

A suicide bomb attack by an Islamic terrorist in Sweden has prompted the local Jewish community...

Gabriel Martindale - The perfidious Albion blog
Britain’s Political Lunacy
January 31, 2012 5:27 pm1 comment

British politics has been heating up recently. Last week the national debt of the United Kingdom...

Adam Jacobs - Jacobs' Ladder
The Secret Life of Hasidic Sexuality
February 21, 2012 12:21 pm7 comments

Though I am not entirely sure why, people seem just plain fascinated by the (supposedly)...

Ben Horne - The Sports Blog

Orthodox Response to an Un-Orthodox Sport
February 23, 2011 1:29 pm2 comments

Imagine the conversation between a Rabbi and his son. Says the Rabbi, “son, when you grow...

Chava Tombosky - My Big Fat Jewish Life
2012 Los Angeles Herzog Wine Festival, a Night of Elegance and Sophistication
February 20, 2012 12:05 pm0 comments

This year’s annual International Food & Wine Festival event promised to be even more...

Elad Nehorai - Elad in Wonderland
Aftershock
March 25, 2011 2:00 pm2 comments

It’s all the same.  Happening all over again. First the Itamar attack, then the rockets...

Melvin Konner -

Israel, The Long View
November 21, 2011 7:12 pm0 comments

I’m sitting on the porch of the home of my friends the Selas, in Binyamina, south of Haifa,...

Laurent David Samama -

Sarkozy and the Jews
October 27, 2011 2:40 am2 comments

PARIS – These last days in France has seen Left-wing groups organize a massive and successful...

Michael Weiss -

Raed Salah’s Apologists Wring Their Hands After the Vile Sheikh’s Arrest
July 4, 2011 7:02 am0 comments

Hats off to Theresa May for throwing the frothing hate-cleric Raed Salah into jail, where...

Sam Westrop -

The Hitler Drinking Game and the Appeasement That Allowed For It
January 20, 2012 11:34 am6 comments

Every week, hate preachers on British universities glorify terror, vindicate those guilty of...

Pinchas Allouche -

Our Attraction To Drama, Alcohol & Other Distractions
January 22, 2012 3:02 pm2 comments

The Choice to Become Absent “Drama” seems to be on an all-time high. Our blinding attraction...

Jeremy Rosen - A Voice In the Camp
Thinking, Fast and Slow – A Must Read
February 17, 2012 12:36 pm0 comments

I must recommend Daniel Kahneman’s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. I was won over at the...

Irit Felsen -

How The Media Can Help Heal Gilad Shalit
November 6, 2011 10:09 am0 comments

For five long years, a media campaign swirled around the abduction and internment of Gilad...

Paul Leslie -

Dissecting Israel’s NGO Bills – What to Keep?
December 1, 2011 10:45 am0 comments

What to do about two more controversial measures targeted against “lawfare” supporting...

Shahrouz Khalifian -

CA Public University System Debates Reinstating Israel Study Program
December 13, 2011 11:28 am0 comments

After a nine-year moratorium, the California State University system is currently considering...

Avishai Don -

The Forgotten Christians
February 10, 2012 10:18 am0 comments

This Saturday marks the one-year anniversary of Hosni Mubarak’s resignation, and the Harvard...

Lifestyle

Mimi Hecht - Lady Mama
My Daycare Journey
June 14, 2011 11:14 pm0 comments

So how exactly did I know it was time to send my first child into the world of daycare? How...

Menucha Levy - Freidafroo
Lady Gaga and the Counting of the Omer
May 23, 2011 2:36 pm0 comments

While half-heartedly screening the 53rd Annual GRAMMY awards this year, when Lady Gaga debuted...

Matthue Roth -

Writers Should Wake Up Early
December 7, 2011 6:27 pm0 comments

As a glutton for torture (and as a recent parent, which is kind of the same thing), I’ve...

Vanessa Van Petten - The Science of People
When Your Jewish Child is Dating a Non-Jew
April 28, 2011 1:55 pm5 comments

This is a tricky article for me to write, but if you will be patient with me, I’m going...

Uri Laio -

Finding Your Inner Matzah
March 31, 2011 3:09 pm1 comment

Pesach is the one holiday on which Jews are required to become obsessed with food. This is...

Vanessa Bressler -

‘Pinkwashing?’ – Forget About Israel
January 5, 2012 9:07 pm0 comments

How does one translate “pinkwashing?”  After I read a New York Times Op-Ed on November...

Lillian Gewirtzman -

Reflections of a Shoah Interviewer
December 28, 2011 12:01 am0 comments

In The summer of 1994 I accepted The Shoah Foundation’s invitation to join the crew of...

Tony Rebuck -

English Football, a Foul Smell?
January 8, 2012 4:00 pm0 comments

Over 60 years ago, at the time Jackie Robinson was breaking the color barrier in Major League...

Arts And Culture

Yitzchok Moully - The Art of Jewish Art
Pop Art Rabbi on Oprah’s Next Chapter
February 8, 2012 3:04 pm0 comments

As a departure from what I usually do on this blog I would like to share some personal art...

Simcha Weinstein - Shtick Shift
Population boom? Why 7 billion isn’t enough
November 2, 2011 1:11 pm0 comments

I may be a rabbi who lives and works in the heart of New York City — in fact, I was...

Elke Reva Sudin - Jewish Art Now
Street Art Meets Spiritual Practice in ‘RITUAL’
July 21, 2011 9:31 am0 comments

On a steamy July evening in the heart of Williamsburg Brooklyn, urban contemporary artists...

Daniel Vahab -

Judah Maccabee Film Writer Compares Mel Gibson to Hitler
February 10, 2012 3:08 pm1 comment

The screenplay writer of Judah Maccabee, the forthcoming film being directed by Mel Gibson...

Evan Kleinman -

‘Punk Jews,’ Why we made it?
August 30, 2011 2:50 am9 comments

People often ask me about an issue that is both the easiest and hardest to explain. Jewish...

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    Washington Post – All I can say is I’m ashamed I didn’t think to call Tamir Goodman myself, to ask the former Jewish Jordan what he thinks about the Jeremy Lin phenomenon. Goodman, of course, became the subject of an ethnic-fueled media madness during his high school career in Maryland, especially after appearing in Sports Illustrated and then flirting with the Terps. He recently told ESPN 600 in El Paso that he had 700 media requests in the first week [...]

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    The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA By Jeff Wheelwright W.W. Norton and Company, 260 pages, $26.95 “From breast cancer to secret Jewish rituals, hidden links signify unlikely kinships in this meditative exploration of the science of racial connectedness,” read Publisher’s Weekly’s review of “The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess”. A vibrant young Hispano woman, Shonnie Medina, inherits a breast-cancer mutation known as BRCA1.185delAG., which is a genetic variant characteristic of Jews. The Medinas knew [...]

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    If you’re an avid whisky drinker, you might want a membership. Joshua Hatton and Jason Johnstone-Yellin, well known whisky connoisseurs, have partnered with Seth Klaskin, to form the Jewish Single Malt Whisky Society. “Joshua and I started as whisky bloggers.  He actually had the name Jewish Single Malt Single Whisky.  As bloggers, we started to build a lot of contacts within the whisky industry and we started to build these relationships. Neither one of us gotten into blogging thinking we [...]

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    Spectator – There are two notable diamond jubilees this year: the obvious one and Jewish Book Week (JWB). The festival opened last weekend and will run at Kings Place in London until Sunday evening, when David Aaronovitch and Umberto Eco will end proceedings with a discussion about the latter’s novel, The Prague Cemetary. JBW is a celebration of literature; but, as one might expect, Jewish identity is central to most events. Yesterday afternoon saw Dennis Marks and Michael Hofmann debating [...]

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    I must recommend Daniel Kahneman’s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. I was won over at the very start when he describes his conversations with his late friend and collaborator Amos Tversky in the Rimon restaurant in downtown Jerusalem, just off Ben Yehudah. Ah, the memories flooded back of the many times I sat there for a quick lunch. But unfortunately it was one year before them; otherwise I might have become a wiser man. The Israeli Nobel Prize winner for [...]

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