The June 2009 issue of Sh’ma is out in an easy to navigate digital edition. This month’s theme is the Jewish house in all in
Each year NPR has a reading of the Declaration of Independence. This year’s reading seemed like it was an indictment of the last eight and
An interesting article in today’s Times recalls the communist witch-hunts of the fifties in the New York City School system. One of the teachers mentioned
It is, of course, people who make up the cities of one’s imagination; the cities that we hold dearest and closest when we plot the
I just got back from Toronto where I spent two days at a small and exciting conference reading Moslem and Jewish medieval legal texts with
Staff Sgt. William D. Vile, 27, of Philadelphia, Pa. died of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using direct fire May 1 near the
Alon Goshen-Gottstein of the Elijah Interfaith Institute wrote this song for the Pope’s visit to Israel and performed it in Nazareth. The kumbaya moment is
In honor of the 83 year and 10 month anniversary of the so-called Scopes monkey trial (conceived as a publicity ploy by the city elders
Well, Waltz With Bashir did not win an Oscar this year, but Rafael, the Israeli defense manufacturer, managed to win an Iron Eagle from Wired