Mystical Politics

An article in the June 2009 issue of Scientific American is about The Taming of the Cat . It seems that they first became domesticated abou...

David Hirsh gives his conclusions about the UCU Congress meeting - "Michael Cushman is excited by his victory. He hasn’t noticed the s...

David Hirsh , blogging live from the UCU Congress, reports on the course of the discussion and the votes on the proposals to boycott Israel ...

The UCU (British University and College Union) is once again bringing a boycott motion to the floor for its Congress happening at the end o...

When people talk about "60 years of occupation," what do they mean? Occupation of what? Israel has occupied the West Bank and the ...

As against those who have argued that Hamas has actually recognized Israel and wishes to negotiate with it, see these comments from Mahmoud...

Update Roxana Saberi was released from Evin prison in Teheran and permitted to leave Iran with her parents. Roger Cohen's brown-nosing...

This is my country?! Interrogation Memos Detail Harsh Tactics by the C.I.A. methods included: keeping detainees awake for up to 11 straight ...

I haven't blogged on Roger Cohen's exceedingly puzzling columns on Iran, its Jews, and Israel (although I have posted a few comment...

Jim West reports on the new Center for Judaic Studies at Liberty University , which was founded by Jerry Falwell. According to the Liberty...

Last summer I wrote about a panel on Women and Qumran at a conference on the Dead Sea Scrolls that was held at the Israel Museum. In the co...

This is a fascinating story and halakhic decision from the most prominent Sephardic rabbinic authority in Israel today. Rabbi Ovadia rules w...

I just sent in my paper proposal for the Society of Biblical Literature meeting this fall: Female Jewish mystics in late antiquity: real wom...

Surprisingly enough, a Christopher Hitchens column about Israel that I actually agree with, on Avigdor Lieberman. Now we have to watch the ...

I'm disappointed to see that the Israeli film Waltz with Bashir did not win an Academy Award tonight, but rather a Japanese film called ...

One of the scariest part of the attack on the Caracas synagogue is what was stolen - two computers in the synagogue that contained the data...

The Associated Press reports that Venezuela's Jews fear more attacks . About 15 people overpowered two security guards at the Tiferet Is...

When I was growing up I believed that anti-semitism was an affliction of the past - it was not something that was going to affect me. It was...

The Israeli election campaign is in full swing, and election propaganda is a crucial part of it - advertisements from the various parties b...

There is now a U.S. Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel, alongside the British one that the UCU was forced to halt b...