Mystical Politics

Meir Javedanfar, on the Guardian site Comment is Free, has scotched the idea that Ahmedinejad is Jewish: Ahmadinejad has no Jewish roots . ...

Nadav Shragai's opinion piece in the March 12, 2009 issue of Haaretz reveals some information that I did not know, and it provides a ke...

So I guess the Jews really do control the media, according to Philip Weiss of Mondoweiss: Dowd breaks ‘Times’ seal on Safire’s ‘influential...

I guess I'm behind the times, but the White House has a blog? See Reality Check: Trying to Turn a Point of Pride into a Moment of Shame ...

I discovered a couple of days ago that Daniel McGowan has republished his article, "What does Holocaust denial really mean?" on t...

Isabel Kershner, in an article in today's New York Times, reports that the visitors to the Temple Mount who aroused such violence yester...

Gershom Gorenberg has a wonderful article at South Jerusalem on Yom Kippur: Hiya Judge: On Dancing Yom Kippur . He writes about the differen...

To my Jewish readers - have an easy fast and g'mar hatimah tovah (may you be sealed for a good life). This Associated Press story on Yom...

Farouk Hosny, the Egyptian culture minister who was not chosen to be the head of UNESCO, blames Jews for UNESCO loss . He said that "Eu...

The latest absurdities to emerge from Jimmy Carter's big, smug mouth - Christopher Hitchens (article of May 21, 2007). It's always ...

The AP is reporting something very alarming about Iran's nuclear capability: Nuke agency says Iran can make bomb. VIENNA — Experts at t...

This is something I've wondered about the release of the man convicted for the Lockerbie bombing, whether his medical condition was real...

Ten years ago Jacob Weisberg wrote an illuminating article about Pat Buchanan - Auf Wiedersehen, Pat - which presents much evidence about ...

I should be grading map exercises, but instead I've been reading blogs, and like other people, have found George Orwell's entries in...

Hamas, the Holocaust-denying Islamist terrorist organization that runs Gaza, slams UN over "Holocaust classes" in Gaza . Branding ...

And on a happier note: Madonna tours Jewish holy sites in Jerusalem . She toured an ancient tunnel near the Western Wall. I presume this is ...

Haredim, seculars clash in Jerusalem. I'm teac hing a course about Jerusalem this semester (history, politics, religion, and architectur...

The only good news in this story is that ANSWER isn't mentioned, although unfortunately the execrable Code Pink has jumped in: Code Pin...

I returned to Ithaca this morning, and it is so green! So much is growing - the tomatoes & basil in the backyard, the rose bushes (which...

I wasn't able to get to this event, but there was a Vigil for Tel Aviv attack held in Jerusalem this afternoon. The Jerusalem Post is r...