In yesterday’s NYT, Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winning economist and voice of conscience, stated very clearly the current divide in American politics. One side of
From Gershom Gorenberg over at South Jerusalem: At 10:03 on Monday morning, Osama Rusrus phoned from Beit Umar in the West Bank with wonderful news:
Shaul Magid has an interesting discussion of Art Green’s new book Radical Judaism together with the reviews of the book, asking the question: “What does
A Guest blog by Rob Kutner. Rob was a writer on The Daily Show and is currently writing for Conan on TBS We can probably
So Howard Jacobson at the New York Times has weighed in with this year’s compulsory whining about how lame Hanukkah is. The “new” twist is
This essay by Rabbi Yehuda Gilad one of the ramim or teachers at Yeshivat Maale Gilboa might actually be a significant development in the slow
War is evil. It is incumbent upon us always to remember the victims of the institution of war and our culpability in the very fact
The wonderful Israeli poet Ruhama Weiss captures in this poem, I think, the deep sadness and the deeper responsibility of this moment. Its from her
Julie Weise, Shtibl member and smart person, has written an important piece about the anti–14th amendment agitation–looking at countries (Germany, Israel, Japan) who don’t grant
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