Mystical Politics

Just a note - today is the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau, which I wrote about in early April.

I just discovered, through a blog link, that the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam has just created an online 3D tour of The Secret Annex . It...

The Daily Mail online has posted some spectacular photos of the Iceland volcano with the aurora borealis shimmering above it: Iceland volcan...

Scary Crooks and Liars headline: Gov. Jan Brewer makes it official: Arizona is now nation's first police state for immigrants Actually, ...

The Fimmvoruhald volcano erupting at Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull glacier, earlier this week. (Don't ask me to pronounce either name -...

I just finished watching "Among the Righteous" - it's a very interesting film, not only telling the stories of some Arabs who ...

Yesterday I went to two events for Yom HaShoah (Holocaust remembrance day). My synagogue, Temple Beth El of Ithaca, hosted a speaker, Profes...

Further on Anat Kam - see Haim Watzman of South Jerusalem on Secret Agents and the Rule of Law.

I just learned from Paleojudaica (Jim Davila's blog) that Hanan Eshel, the great Israeli scholar of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other earl...

Gila Swirsky, whom I first met in Israel in 1987 as we were both protesting against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in the ...

In my Jews in the Contemporary World course we are discussing the Holocaust this week, and I took a look at some New York Times articles, fi...

This second New York Times article is about the liberation of Dachau. Dachau captured by Americans who kill guards, liberate 32,000 DACH...

The New York Times reported on June 10, 1945, about the number of Jews killed by the Nazis. Since this is such an early report, some of the...

The Sunday Times (London) has just published an article on Human Rights Watch's most controversial ex-employee, Marc Garlasco (whose ho...

A columnist for the Dallas Morning News, Mark Davis, has written an article where he also presumes to tell American Jews what we should thin...

Zionist Organization of America: Obama's Israel stance 'an insult' to all Jews. Well, no. Maybe an insult to very right wing J...

I just made my plane reservations for my summer journeys this year. I'm going to Israel for a little over a month, and then I'll be ...

Andrew Sullivan gives Netanyahu's brother-in-law the Malkin Award nomination, which he richly deserves for his idiotic statement that O...

Apparently there's something truly offensive about Israel rebuilding a synagogue in the Jewish Quarter: Jerusalem on high alert after Ha...

One of the striking architectural elements of the Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Jerusalem for many years was the remnant of the curving ...