Mystical Politics

Arun Gandhi has resigned from the peace institute he headed at the University of Rochester. He issued an apology a few days after his origi...

Norm Geras has posted several moving comments on Holocaust Memorial Day 2008 . See especially what he has to say about Hannah Arendt's i...

This is exciting - Ted Kennedy Plans to Back Obama Over Clinton .

Barack Obama appears to have won the South Carolina primary by a sizable margin - 53% to Clinton's 27% and Edwards' 20%. I'm hap...

As I had hoped, the fact that the story about Ron Paul's racism was finally written about in a mainstream media outlet - the New Republi...

Harry's Place has dredged up two of Gandhi's more notorious quotes about the Jews, nonviolence, and the Holocaust (Gandhi's art...

Well, it seems that Andrew Sullivan really has drunk the Kool-Aid when he says that he just doesn't believe Ron Paul "wrote those ...

Apparently Arun Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, doesn't understand Jews and the Jewish situation in the contemporary world any m...

Steven Erlanger of the New York Times has finally reported on the Qassam rocket attacks on Sderot . (I usually disagree with those who criti...

James Kirchick of the New Republic has finally done the research in Ron Paul's newsletters to prove the point that his bigoted associat...

I've been following some of the blogosphere discussion about Ron Paul's connections to the American far right - among others, neo-Na...

Since I'm feeling melancholy about the short days, I thought I'd post some nice photos of sunnier days. The first two are of Sodom P...

Just some thoughts on the ending of the (secular) year. I was just walking to my local coffee shop (Gimme!) and thinking about how the end ...

I just found this out by reading Paleojudaica: John Strugnell Dies at 77; Scholar Undone by His Slur . I studied with Strugnell when I was a...

Last night in shul, instead of singing Adon Olam at the end, we sang a couple of stanzas of Maoz Tzur - the first and the last, both of whic...

I was just listening to Mitt Romney speaking on NPR (they interviewed him for tonight’s All Things Considered) and he said that he believed ...

The FBI has put up on its website all of the Hate Crime Statistics reports since 1996. I took a look at all of them for the purpose of comp...

Arash Kamangir has some good questions on his blog about the latest FBI statistics. He pointed out that to make a true comparison between a...

The FBI has released the report on 2006 Hate Crime Statistics, and it is very interesting to examine those hate crimes based on the religiou...

Some more Google Earth images. The first one is of the neighborhood I've lived in Jerusalem - Emek Refaim. The second is of the Old City...