Mystical Politics

An article in the New York Times outlines how the Mumbai attackers seem to have proceeded. One "black inflatable lifeboat" landed...

Post begun Wednesday, November 26 (read down for updates): I spent the day pleasantly, hanging out with my family and getting ready for Tha...

An interesting Reuters article on who could be behind the Mumbai attacks and why? . One interesting point made in the article: The Mumbai at...

The Obamas have chosen the school that their daughters will attend in Washington - Sidwell Friends School. I usually wouldn't pay attent...

Unfortunately, this is not a "post-racial" country: a roundup of articles on racist reactions to Obama's election: Election...

The students in my classes this morning told me that there was a huge, spontaneous party last night after it was announced that Barack Obama...

I stood last night at Castaways (a local bar in Ithaca) with my friends and we watched Barack Obama win this historical election. Amazing! W...

Obama's grandmother died very eary this morning. Joe Klein of Time Magazine has a moving obituary about her - To The Mountaintop .

In today's New York Times, there is a moving obituary of Rabbi Moshe Cotel , whom I met when I belonged to the West Side Minyan (an ind...

The Forward has provided the full text of the e-mail that the Pennsylvania Republican State Committee sent to 75,000 Jewish voters in the s...

There are plenty of issues currently more important than whether Barack Obama was close to Bill Ayers - for example, the current meltdown o...

The Engage website has just reported that Tikkun magazine published an article this summer by Israel Shamir, the notorious anti-semite (a...

This photograph is from today's New York Times, in an Dress Rehearsal in Light article about the Tribute in Light, which has been proje...

I wrote about this proverb once before, but I just found an interesting reference to it in an article by David M. Bunish, "Judeo-Spani...

Steven Waldman at Beliefnet has posted the complete text of David Brickner's speech at Palin's church. (Brickner is the executive d...

And now, down from the Temple Mount, a couple of photos of the Western Wall - first the women's side (which you'll notice is much sm...

From Temple Mount Summer 2007 I thought it might be nice to show another image of the Temple Mount. This is a view of the Dome of the Rock f...

It's always interesting to see how people get to this blog. One of the most consistent searches that ends up here is for Bernardine Dohr...

Ben Smith of Politico reports on the many reasons that Jewish voters may be wary of Palin. The reason that repels me the most is that her c...

I'm sitting here listening to CNN's coverage of Gustav, and also reading a website from UC Berkeley about how to improve one's t...