Mystical Politics

Many religious Jews will spell the English word "God" with a dash in it - "G-d." I believe that this has developed from ...

W.H. Auden's words in his poem "September, 1939," still resonate for me as also evoking September 11, 2001. I sit in one of th...

I'm leaving Israel in only a couple of days - unfortunately, I must return to the U.S. and to my job and the mounds of work it requires....

This cartoon from Ted Rall expresses perfectly what people say to me every time I decide to go to Israel....

This is a very interesting development - Coalition of Evangelicals Voices Support for Palestinian State . This is the first time I have hear...

About a week ago, I paid a visit to the Temple Mount, called in Hebrew הר הבית ("mountain of the House" - the House being the Jeru...

A lovely piece of academic news - Ward Churchill has just been fired from his job at the University of Colorado: the spotlight on Churchill...

I'm listening right now to Mabat, the 9:00 p.m. news show on Channel 1, and they're speaking about the new report that the State Com...

The porch of a house on Kovshei Katamon St. An Israeli flag, looking somewhat delapidated, hanging from a flagpole of the Reut School. The w...

I took a walk down from my apartment to a friend's house, and I took a few photos on my way. I walked down a street called "Kovshei...

I’m just sitting here and staring out the window of the Gershom Scholem library at the trees on the Givat Ram campus – an assortment of Medi...

I saw a good movie a couple of nights ago, also as part of the Jerusalem Film Festival, called “Crossing Borders.” It was in Arabic, with H...

April DeConick, in her excellent Forbidden Gospels Blog, has an interesting discussion of a new article by Peter Schäfer on the question of ...

Tonight I went to the Jerusalem Film Festival and saw a very affecting film - The Devil Came on Horseback . It's about Brian Steidle, a...

A couple of pieces of "interesting" news in relation to Syria: In a Ynet story, it says Lebanon 'to erupt in 1 week.' ...

I recently read Abraham Rabinovich's book on the Yom Kippur War and the most interesting thing about the book is how he explains why th...

A few scattered items. 1) Scary stuff about Syria from Haaretz Syria is producing more rockets and preparing its army for possible armed con...

Michael Totten has put up a couple of posts on the subject of whether another war is imminent this summer between Israel and a variety of e...

Today's New York Times has a great story on the origin of the domestic cat - and as we all suspected, cats domesticated themselves, we ...

Balloon arch The gay pride parade yesterday in Jerusalem was a success, at least for the people who went to it (obviously not for the Haredi...