Mystical Politics

I am reminded of the tsunami in Indonesia and Sri Lanka in December when looking at the photographs and video of New Orleans today. Right n...

For a beautiful poetic parody of T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland" and of J.K. Rowling's latest book, "Harry Potter and th...

The Israeli government has engaged in several actions concurrent with or just after the disengagement from Gaza that make me feel very depre...

I'm sitting here in my study in Ithaca, planning this semester's courses and listening to "Here Comes the Sun" by the Beat...

It's sounding like the pullout from the four West Bank settlements is going to be toughter to execute than in Gaza. A recent incident, S...

I was just looking at some of the photographs from Kfar Darom about the fighting between IDF soldiers and settlers on the roof of the synago...

Here we go again - Cuban crackdown brings arrests of 50 dissidents , and yet people on the left still defend it. Chris McConkey (of "P...

Some Jewish blogs on the recent terrorist attack: Rahel (in Jerusalem) at Elms in the Yard condemned today's terrorist attack by an ...

The scenes from the disengagement are horrible to watch and hear. I was especially appalled to hear on the radio this morning that a woman h...

Once more, a reprise of the essential Hebrew slang you never learned in ulpan, from "The Underground Academy for the Hebrew Language...

Danny Rubinstein in Haaretz reminds us today of the other uprooting . While many Jews today are mourning the evacuation from Gaza, we should...

I just made a pleasant discovery: The Religious Policeman has returned from to blogging after a year of inactivity. Who is he? "The di...

There are some interesting discussions/debates going on in the Jewish blogs about the Gaza disengagement, which is about to happen after Tis...

In response to several commenters on Orthomom's denunciation of the Shfaram killings, who attempted to make light of this attack, I wro...

And now this - Deserter from IDF kills four Arabs on a bus in Shfaram, in northern Israel. "A Jewish Israeli man in an Israel Defense ...

Looking through my photos of Prague, the architectural difference between the churches and the synagogues strikes me. The churches are all b...

One of the more pleasant aspects of my trip to Prague was simply wandering around the city and looking at the fantastic architecture - medie...

Having just arrived back from Prague, I checked my blog and discovered to my astonishment how many people have been reading it - apparently ...

Yesterday I visited Terezin, the Czech town that was turned by the Nazis into a ghetto for the Jews of the Czech lands (Bohemia and Moravia)...