According to Ha’aretz, another challenge to the Chief Rabbinate has popped up. Last month I blogged on the reaction to the scandalous no-heter for shmitta
This LOLCat Bible touches on something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. If anyone has seen the play The Great Works of Shakespeare
An interesting piece in the Jerusalem Post this month about the development of the Hebrew alphabet: as opposed to the Phoenician system of lettering, the
From David Basior in the new media source, Jew-ish Seattle: The oppression of Jews here is about our invisibility. Much of this is internalized, and
Dr. David Berger, recently appointed director of YU’s Yeshiva College’s Jewish Studies Department, writes a response to the accusation that he excludes a major Jewish
On Monday, the Supreme Court refused to reexamine a new York court ruling upholding a state law that forces religious-based social service agencies to subsidize
Apparently, yesterday, Stephen Colbert announced his candidacy for president on “The Colbert Report.” According to the AP report he plans to run in South Carolina
So the State of Israel has gone 59 1/2 years without a written constitution. You can’t blame them really — when the state was declared
From my Uncle Richie comes this story about Jews at a tailgate party in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. What’s really cool about the story, imo, is
Over at Nextbook, one woman’s musings about the role of The Jewish Catalog (the first, need you ask?) in her life and on her parents’