Mystical Politics

This article makes me hungry for Jerusalem - literally! Winter on Saladin Street . The last grapes, the first strawberries, a sweet ro...

A very interesting article in today's Ha'aretz about the " Israelization " of some Palestinians in East Jerusalem. Some ...

I've been posting all these terribly gloomy stories about murder, so I think it's time to post something much more pleasant - some p...

Ambushed NY firemen shot dead; two police killed elsewhere In addition to the horrible arson-murder-suicide today outside Rochester, NY, a...

Two Rochester-area Firefighters Shot and Killed Webster, N.Y. - Two firefighters were shot and killed during a call to a fire on Bay Road ...

4 dead, including shooter, in central Pennsylvania A man killed two men and one woman Friday in central Pennsylvania, then died in a gunf...

From Huffington Post's home page today : TO LIVE AND DIE IN AMERICA 3 Shot And Killed In Mich...  18-Year-Old Shot Multiple ...

I believe I've only known two people who were murdered, in sharp contrast to Aisha Roberts, the 19 year old quoted in the previous post,...

The Huffington Post has tracked murders in the US since the Sandy Hook school massacre on December 14. They found that over a 100 people ha...

Yesterday, Wayne LaPierre, the vice president of the NRA, said that "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with ...

After the horrible massacre at Newtown, I think we need to become aware of all the other people in the US who are murdered every day with gu...

In Norm's excellent series, "Figures from a dark time," he has just posted about the fate of the Jews of Libau/Liepaja, Latvia...

If Israel goes ahead with its plans to develop E-1 ( Dividing the West Bank, Deepening a Rift ), located between Maale Adumim and Jerusalem,...

At the SBL in November, 2012, I participated in a book review session for Andrei Orlov's fine new book, Dark Mirrors: Azazel and Satanae...

Really good article by Dahlia Lithwick of Slate on  What’s it’s like to be in Jerusalem as the conflict escalates.  She's in Israel for ...

Sirens Disrupt the Sabbath in Jerusalem An article from the New York Times about how the tranquility of Shabbat last night in Jerusalem was...

From reading Haaretz online and also the Twitter feeds of Israeli friends - air raid sirens have sounded in Tel Aviv. Three rockets fired th...

Hussein Ibish, in  Operation Cast Lead 2.0 , provides a good discussion of what's at stake in Israel's attack on Hamas and its possi...

This slide shows the range of the various rockets that Hamas has in its possession - image from Haaretz, with some translations from the Heb...

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