Mystical Politics

If you want to visit my brother's blog, he's started blogging again about My Popular Music Tastes . His profile photo depicts my gra...

For an excellent blog on issues of racism, voting fraud, and most recently, the shocking case of a 5-year old African- American child handc...

Rachel Barenblat (of Velveteen Rabbi ) sent me a link to these heartbreaking drawings - Children’s Drawings from Darfur . These are drawings...

While cruising on the Ha'aretz web site, I found this hilarious guide to street Hebrew - The Hebrew they never taught you . I think that...

Jim Davila at PaleoJudaica.com has an extensive post on the Association of University Teachers' proposed boycott of three Israeli unive...

Somehow, I knew this: Some Extra Heft May Be Helpful, New Study Says . Can we now stop with the hysteria about being fat? And note: this new...

The British Association of University Teachers is debating a motion to boycott three Israeli universities for their supposed support of Isr...

As pointed out by Jim Davila at Paleojudaica , the Yeshiva University Museum Presents A Journey Through the Talmud's History . The exhib...

Cardinal Ratzinger elected new Pope . We will see. Andrew Sullivan is very unhappy that Ratzinger is the new Pope, given Ratzinger's th...

Here's the report from the IC student newspaper about yesterday's rally: Hundreds rally to 'Erase the Hate' . A detail that ...

Today's "Erase the Hate" rally was very exciting and hopeful. It was wonderful to see how well students organized the rally, h...

On the depressing notes of racism and indifference.... at my college this semester there have been several notable racist incidents that are...

Once again, I'd like to invite my readers (whoever you are!) to pay a visit to the Coalition for Darfur and to Passion of the Present ...

In this article, In a Judgmental World, She Was Ashamed of Getting Sick , the author writes about her mother who died of emphysema. She had ...

Once again, Avi Shafran, the "Director of Public Affairs" of Agudath Israel, the ultra-Orthodox Jewish group, tries to claim in th...

This scary story in Thursday's Haaretz tells about a "High alert amid warnings of Temple Mount attack." The Shin Bet securi...

Another great Op-Ed piece by Nicholas Kristof on Darfur - The Pope and Hypocrisy . As he says, "'Throughout the West, John Paul...

For two of my classes, I (and hopefully the students as well!) have been reading two fascinating new books - one by Arthur Green, Guide to t...

I just read the article in today's New York Times Magazine about the Dutch-Somali ex-Muslim member of the Dutch Parliament, Ayaan Hirsi...

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