Mystical Politics

Given the negative posts that I've written about the behavior of the Iranian regime and its president, you might think that I'd be i...

Today we had our IC Hillel Israel Independence Day celebration - a day earlier than Israel (since we have Sunday off). It was fun, although ...

Of all the acts that happened at Virginia Tech on Monday, Professor Librescu's standing in the path of the shooter to save the life of ...

Peggy Williams, the president of Ithaca College, sent out an Important Message for the Campus Community on the massacre at Virgina Tech tod...

Rabbi Einat Ramon, the dean of the Masorti Rabbinical School in Jerusalem, writes in an article in the Washington Jewish Week, Healing heter...

Today is one of those moist, rainy, Ithaca days that we get so many of. The daffodils, tulips, and forsythia are just about to bloom if we e...

Normblog has pointed out a highly amusing feature of Google Maps. See New York to Paris for directions on how to get from New York to Paris...

I just discovered The Forbidden Gospels Blog , written by April DeConick, professor of biblical studies at Rice University and founder of th...

I just bought my plane ticket for travel to Israel this summer. I'll be in Jerusalem for two months, doing research and I hope finishing...

I just went to a couple of movies sponsored by FLEFF - the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, which is run by people at Ithaca Colle...

There are times when I think of the Conservative movement as being like the Episcopal Church - in its establishment nature and its stuffines...

I've been reading Michael Oren's book, Six Days of War , on the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 and its aftermath. It's fascinating and...

The New York Times reported yesterday that Sudanese in Israel Hope They Have Found a Home . This is a touching story about Sudanese from Dar...

I seem to have entered the netherland of the blog world - talking about my cat. So much for politics or religion.... Today was the beginning...

Well, I didn't manage to take any pictures, but I did just come back inside from shoveling the walk a third time today. I think about 2 ...

I went out this morning and shoveled the entire walk (which is quite long, because my house is on the corner), and then just went out now an...

It's snowing, finally - we had a very warm winter until a few weeks ago, when the Arctic cold from Canada swooped down on us and hasn...

As usual, Anne Applebaum's sharp intelligence cuts through the nonsense. Her points: 1) Saddam belonged to the well-known species of 20...

Stephen Bainbridge, a law professor at UCLA, presents an interesting Catholic perspective on whether Saddam should have been executed. Desp...

The New York Times today ran an interesting (and depressing) article about the rush to execute Saddam Hussein. It portrays the American aut...