Mystical Politics

Via Bloghead, an anti-semitic editorial from the Duke University student newspaper, The Jews . The author, using classic anti-semitic trope...

Another chilling Nicholas Kristof op-ed on Darfur - As Humans Are Hunted . He says that the Sudanese government was unwilling to give him a ...

Our intrepid Secretary of State makes his views known: Powell Says Saudi Women Should Have Vote . He says: "It is a decision for the Sa...

I am struck by this story, in which the Saudi government claims it can't organize local elections with women participating, Saudi Wome...

Via another Jewish blog, I just found a new and very delightful blog by a Renegade Rebbetzin . For obvious reasons she's anonymous, but ...

The sad cost of Israel's attacks in Gaza: The High Cost of Israel's Gaza Mission: Innocent Victims . And why does Sharon not evacuat...

And obviously, this is not the first attack on Israelis abroad, as the New York Times reports: A Bleak History: 3 Decades of Attacks on Jewi...

1008MIDEASTmap Originally uploaded by reb-lesses . These maps, from the New York Times , show where the attacks in Egypt were.

One of the stories on Israel Radio was about the hundreds of people who showed up to donate blood for the wounded from the terror attacks in...

I've been listening to Israeli Radio's "Reshet Bet" (their news and music station) for more news on what's happened in...

I was about to go to synagogue tonight for the Simhat Torah service when I heard on the radio that there had been a terrorist attack at the ...

I found another interesting Saudi blog (via Mahmood's blog) - Saudi Jeans . It's written by a college student in Riyadh. Thus far, h...

I just read the NYTimes magazine article in today's newspaper about political weblogs - and was disgusted to discover that they only pa...

For those of you interested in the Zayed Centre in the United Arab Emirates Jim Davila at PaleoJudaica.com has a long report on how the UAE ...

I am apparently Purple and Proud of It (washingtonpost.com) , as Richard Cohen argues in the Washington Post. I nevertheless cannot bring...

Rabbi Yossi Dayan, who said that he would be willing to perform the Pulsa Denura ceremony against Prime Minister Sharon, may be indicted for...

I named this weblog "Mystical Politics" in part to discuss the nexus between mysticism and politics. For the most part, I have som...

WTC Originally uploaded by reb-lesses . In commemoration.

Once again, Sudan: The Passion of the Present reports superbly on what is happening in Darfur. My friend Gary Farber also has links to a ve...

On the day that we Americans are mourning over 1,000 Americans, mostly soldiers, who have died during the Iraq War, the AP reports that Thou...