Mystical Politics

Two Jerusalem cats at 12 Elazar ha-Modai St.  Because so many people make their way to this blog when they are searching for cats onl...

NASA has put up some beautiful photos of Hurricane Irene from space, including one that gives a full disk image of the western hemisphere. N...

Roger Cohen of the New York Times has written a column that I actually mostly agree with, on "Jews in a Whisper," on the contrast...

An interesting Egyptian perspective on what is happening in Sinai right now and the role of Israel in the Sinai: Sinai contested: Outlaws, ...

What's happening in Israel right now is very scary - not just the terrorist attack that occurred on Thursday, but also the extensive roc...

Good article by Lillian Faderman on the situation in Israel for GLBT people: If You Take Down Israel, What Else Goes With It? Americans ha...

Seven killed in series of terrorist attacks in southern Israel From Ha'aretz: Seven people were killed and at least 26 people were w...

I'm supposed to be finishing writing an article on women and the Hekhalot literature, but instead I just read an entertaining article (a...

When I was in Israel in June and July, I longed for rain, since it doesn't usually rain at all from late April until sometime in October...

This is the best explanation I've read about the economic reasons for the tent protests in Israel - Protesters Force Israel to Grapple W...

On the personal level, I'm not feeling so apocalyptic - I just spent the last two days at a wonderful conference at Dartmouth on " ...

It feels like a very strange time we're living in right now. The whole debt limit fiasco that happened last week, ended by what feels li...

Very exciting - wish I had been there! 250,000-300,000 were at the demonstration in Tel Aviv, and about 30,000 in Jerusalem. Haaretz report ...

This sounds like a fabulous demonstration! Jerusalem parents stroll for change Thousands of children and their young fathers and mother...

Gershom Gorenberg reports on the demands of the leaders of the tent protests, which they made at a press conference today: ‘The State Is Res...

I'm looking through a series of photos that Haaretz photographers have taken of the protests, and the first ones are from July 14 - whe...

Now, would this ever happen in America? No. Of course, I've never seen this happen in Israel either, although there certainly have been ...

When I was in Israel earlier this summer, the big local protest was about the cost of cottage cheese, which had been raised greatly in the ...

Has the Arab Spring come to Israel? If you expect to learn about this by reading the New York Times or listening to NPR, you're out of l...

I just spent some time this morning reading through the comments on a posting on Harry's Place about Pamela Geller deleting the violent...