Mystical Politics

Apparently several of our Republican candidates for president have not yet read the first amendment to the Constitution, which states: Con...

I haven't posted anything to my blog since September, but the reactions that I have been reading in some leftist articles to the ISIS m...

On Sunday night there will be the last super blood moon  until 2033. So after this one, we won't have to worry about the apocalypse for ...

There are times when studying the history of Jews and Judaism in late antiquity comes in handy in the face of contemporary events. The radic...

From Haaretz. Sa'ad Dawabshe,  Father of Ali, Dies  and is buried in his home village of Duma.  A Palestinian man who was seriously woun...

Extremist settlers attack another home in Duma : NABLUS (Ma’an) - Extremist Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian home with fire bombs a...

I got into an argument with someone on Facebook about whether it was fair to see Yishai Schlissel as a product of the Haredi educational sys...

Banner near the house, with a photograph of Ali Sa'ad Dawabshe I've never been inside a house where someone was murdered befor...

I'm visiting Israel right now for a little over a week, to have a vacation and see friends and go to interesting places.  I have been sp...

It is utterly amazing that we can  view  the surface of Pluto!

From the AP:  Former Auschwitz guard, 94, convicted as accessory to murder LUENEBURG, Germany (AP) — A 94-year-old former SS sergeant who se...

Excellent essay by Howard Jacobson , in the Independent,  “We need a counter-narrative.” How often have we heard that since 7/7? We need ...

From the BBC , July 7, 2015: Services have been held to remember the "ocean of pain" caused by the London bombings, in whic...

According to Lutheran minister Mark Dankof, Jews are to blame for the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States. (Why not? We...

I just discovered that the Jerusalem Pride March is happening while I'll be visiting Israel in late July-early August. Here are the de...

I never thought this day would come.  In the mid-1970s, when I was first coming out, it wasn't even a dream. In Massachusetts, wher...

Some quotes that particularly struck me from this article by Claudia Rankine,  ‘The Condition of Black Life Is One of Mourning’ . I asked...

In the regional archaeological museum: part of the fence from the concentration camp in Witten. I was just thinking about how differen...