Neuroscientists have proposed a simple explanation for the pleasure of grasping a new concept: The brain is getting its fix. The “click” of comprehension triggers
Richard Morin in WaPo: This is not funny: Jon Stewart and his hit Comedy Central cable show may be poisoning democracy. Two political scientists found
The LA Times offers a thorough examination of eschatological church movements in America, and their designs for world Jewry: According to various polls, an estimated
Synagoge 3000 research chief and Syanblogger Shawn Landres parallels synagogue revitalization and the indie minyan scene to “emergent churches” in the latest Shma Journal: The
Mazal tov to Nachama Shaina Langer and Micha Adam Levin on the occasion of their wedding last night in Mevo Modiin. All couples should merit
Some might recall my blogging of “the Kabbalah van” in April of 2004 and my befuddlement at such a “vehicular spectacle” — that of an
After the world raced to condemn Israel for its abhorrent and inexcusable murder of Palestinian civilians on the beach in Gaza the Shabbat-before-last, Human Rights
JPost reports, Danny Tirza, the Defense Ministry’s chief architect for the West Bank security fence, was fired on Monday by Defense Minister Amir Peretz who
aka things I’ve been too busy to blog… Canonist reports that CoP exec. dir. Malcolm Hoenlein told listeners on a Jewish radio program in NJ
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