Mystical Politics

Another amusing blog -- Merde in France .

Spent the last two days going to Rosh Hashanah services -- today was a treat, because we got to hear the shofar blowing (omitted yesterday b...

Rosh Hashanah begins tomorrow night -- the new year of 5764 (since the creation of the world, according to the Jewish reckoning). Gershon Ba...

An incredibly mealy-mouthed defense of the Washington Post's refusal to call Hamas a "terrorist organization" or to call its ...

Here is an absolutely impressive article by John Burns, NYTimes reporter in Iraq -- "There Is Corruption in Our Business" . He say...

Lots of good links at We remember September 11 on Kesher Talk.

A good article (Lore shapes the 'Tablets') on the different translations & versions of the so-called Ten Commandments ( aseret ...

In my old neighborhood in Jerusalem, on Emek Refaim St. in the German Colony, there was a suicide bombing today-- At least 6 dead in suicide...

In this article, The Hidden Roots of 9/11 , Robert Wistrich lays out the anti-semitic roots of Al Qaeda and argues that we ignore it them ou...

In response to the NYT story about the new footage about 9/11, here are some personal stories posted on the little green footballs weblog ab...

I don't agree with everything they say, but little green footballs is wonderful in their insistence on remembering September 11.

Did you know that, according to Abdel Rahman al Tamimi, director of a Palestinian hydrologists group, in a Boston Globe article published to...

An amazing new video of the attacks in New York on September 11 -- A Rare View of 9/11, Overlooked . A Czech immigrant videotaped both plane...

I don’t know about any of the rest of you, but my mind is very much on the fact that September 11 is coming up next week. Next Thursday, to ...

I keep forgetting to recommend this book, but Adele Reinhartz has written an excellent book on a Jewish response to the Gospel of John -- Be...

In Beliefnet.com, the Jewish New Testament scholar Amy-Jill Levine makes some very good points about the response to critics of Mel Gibson...

More on the Mel Gibson Passion controversy. In an interview with the Jerusalem Report , The Gospels Agree - Jesus Was Killed by Rome , Euge...

Well, that time of the year has arrived -- the beginning of the fall semester. I definitely feel a pang that I will soon have very little ti...

More on the bombing in Jerusalem early today. This one is even more painful to read about than usual because of the number of children kill...

The "hudna" seems to have conclusively fallen apart today: Several Children Among the Dead in Bus Bombing in Jerusalem. A sui...