Mystical Politics

1. Romney's clueless aides initially scheduled his big fundraiser on Tisha B'Av, a fast day. 2. Romney went to the Western Wall on...

I went to the Old City today, hoping to get up to the Temple Mount, but it was closed in the afternoon to visitors because of Ramadan. I did...

Mitt Romney interfering in Israeli politics at the behest of Netanyahu :  Romney cancels on Yacimovich after meeting with Netanyahu . Much...

Today, Mitt Romney paid a visit to the Western Wall - during the fast day of Tisha B'Av, commemorating the destruction of the first and ...

Interesting story from the AP:  Palestinian official visits Auschwitz memorial . An adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is visi...

Shiraz Socialist , a British socialist blog that is connected to a small left-wing group in Britain, the Alliance for Workers Liberty, just ...

Another not very calming article in Haaretz today. This one is about something that happened on the Israel-Syria border in the Golan last Th...

Great article by Janine di Giavanni, Life During Wartime , about how you know when a war is starting in your country - in this case, Syria. ...

I've just started reading a newly-published book, New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only , edited by Andrei Orlov and Gabr...

Source: Rabbis for Human Rights By: Ori Ben Dov – On Shabat evening, 14.7 during a demonstration on Kaplan St. where Moshe Silman set fire ...

A photo from the Tzedek Hevrati website of the demonstration in Jerusalem tonight, showing the protestors sitting in the middle of the stree...

Demonstrations were held tonight all over Israel in solidarity with Moshe Siman, who set himself on fire at the social justice rally last ni...

I'm reading Tertullian's "On the Apparel of Women" for chapter 4 of my book, which is about the forbidden teachings the fa...

Saudi Arabia joins the 20th century:  Saudis to Send 2 Women to London Games .

I'm glad to see this:  European rabbis urge Germany's Jews to defy court ruling on circumcision . Europe's main Orthodox rabbin...

A poem by Rabbi David Wolpe on the German court's decision on circumcision, published in the  Washington Post : In Germany there is a mo...

I'm listening tonight to Reshet Bet, and "American Pie" starts playing! I guess this is part of their July 4th coverage. Sudde...

Yair Rosenberg in Tablet presents the scientific evidence in favor of circumcision. “Male circumcision is a highly significant, lifetime i...

Iran threatens Israel Iran announced missile tests on Sunday and threatened to wipe Israel "off the face of the earth" if the Jew...

From the JHate website of Aryeh Tuchman , I learned that Daniel McGowan has written the forward to Germar Rudolf's recent book, Resistan...