Mystical Politics

Zachary on the washing machine Originally uploaded by reb-lesses . And here's the man himself, lazing around as usual (when not...

I was out working in the garden today. I dug up all the old vegetables from last year, including some extremely large kale trunks, which wer...

Another good Washington Post editorial about Darfur: Don't Move On The best shot at breaking this cycle of violence and hunger is to p...

Don Cheadle and John Prendergast say about the genocide in Darfur: Enough excuses. The time to act is now. Reading this article, which crit...

This is a good editorial on the Terri Schiavo case - Support for life, politics and money . The author points out that in a case in Texas la...

For extended analyses of the situation in Darfur and what is (not) being done to save people, read Eric Reeves . From the reading that I hav...

Kevin Drum has a good post on "Terri Schiavo and the limits of cynicism," where he reports that of two recent polls, by ABC News ...

I've just browsing the Net to find more information on Darfur for my Judaism class, which will be discussing Jewish responses to the gen...

The latest report from Passion of the Present on the Crisis in Sudan . This is the transcript of a report on PBS's Newshour on Darfur - ...

And then let us consider this article from the Week in Review section of today's New York Times - Beyond the Bullets and Blades . In the...

Let us consider two articles in today's New York Times. On the front page is an article about Terry Schiavo, the woman in Florida who h...

For more information on the dubious quality of Ward Churchill's academic writing, see this article from the Denver Post: CU prof's w...

On a completely non-political note - I'm sitting here in the quiet evening and listening to the calls of the Canadian geese flying high ...

More on the Ward Churchill controversy. It is becoming ever more clear that Churchill's "Indian" or "Native American...

I just received an e-mail from the American Jewish World Service about the U.S. House of Representatives eliminating $150 million of humani...

I meant to blog about this earlier. Guy Spigelman at Ha'aretz wrote on Why Jewish students are really silent . He was writing about the ...

Further from Mahmood's Den on hopes for democracy in the Arab world. Mahmood writes about three Bahraini bloggers who have been impriso...

David Adesnik at Oxblog, on liberals and Lebanon - what he said . I find the political position that I'm in very strange. I did not v...

Another fascinating blog that I've just learned about, on the practice of taharat ha-mishpacha , or "family purity" - Mayim Ra...

Miriam at Bloghead just mentioned a fascinating set of posts from Biur Chametz about the question of women and Torah reading at Orthodox sy...