Mystical Politics

And yet another excellent op-ed essay by Anne Applebaum, about Democracy Under The Veil , in the Islamic world.

Hooray for this Washington Post editorial ( 'American Gulag' ) condemning the head of Amnesty International's recent naming of t...

Now, I don't care about these people at all, but I do love this headline - Paris Hilton Engaged To Paris . She is now engaged to someone...

The Ithaca Journal devoted its entire editorial page today to responses to Sandy Wold's column two weeks ago. In their own editorial, ...

In re the Newsweek story (now retracted) about a Koran being put into a toilet at Guantanomo Bay, the Washington Post reports that Desecrati...

Haaretz reports that 5 Jews arrested for planning to attack the Temple Mount . Four of the men charged apparently were plotting to launch an...

Via DovBear, a despicable article by Pat Buchanan on Was World War II worth it? Apparently we (and the Brits) should have let Germany and t...

The Association for Jewish Studies today sent out a message to all its members protesting the British Association of University Teachers...

Interestingly enough, LGF has now linked to Sandy Wold's article in Saturday's Ithaca Journal - A Mother's Day Antisemitic Rant ...

My local newspaper published several articles today for Mother's Day. One, titled Mothers can make healing a priority , by Sandy Wold, l...

I just read a beautiful post on Rachel Barenblat's blog on doing taharah - the ritual of preparing the dead for burial. One paragraph p...

Tonight I watched the Frontline program - Memory of the Camps , containing footage of the Nazi concentration camps in Germany and Austria, f...

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...