Mystical Politics

Another posting by Daniel McGowan makes his Holocaust denial more apparent. He says: When Elie Wiesel took Oprah Winfrey to Auschwitz, th...

For more information on Zundel, the Canadian court judgement against him is very useful. It is available at Court Judgement . Zundel has bee...

In today's Ithaca Journal, probably in response to Lipstadt's talk, Daniel McGowan , emeritus professor of economics at Hobart and W...

Professor Lipstadt's talk on Thursday night was excellent and very well-attended. Many students and community members came to hear her c...

Dr. Deborah Lipstadt will be speaking on Thursday evening at Ithaca College on "Holocaust Denial: A New Form of Anti-Semitism." Sh...

A great op-ed by Doris Lessing , in today's New York Times is a great antidote to another op-ed earlier in the week by Slavoj Zizek on ...

What I don't understand about Ann Coulter is in what way is she actually a Christian ? She claims to be a Christian, and says that Jews ...

The Jewish Week provides the context for McCain's remark about "Talmudic Discussion": Jewish Democrats, however, blasted Mc...

Today's New York Times has another chilling story - this time an op-ed piece by Nathaniel Deutch, of Swarthmore College, about the Mand...

Fr. Patrick Desbois, a Catholic priest has been documenting the Holocaust in Ukraine by interviewing people who were only children or teena...

Carla Sulzbach, one of my correspondents, sent me many useful links on the topic of why people use "G-d" instead of "God....

Jews and Muslims criticized McCain's remarks on the U.S. as a "Christian nation." The American Jewish Committee has criticize...

Good critique of McCain by David Kuo , who used to work in the White House office of "faith-based" initiatives. The comments to th...

So apparently John McCain now thinks that only a Christian should be President of the United States: "But, no, I just have to say in a...

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...