Mystical Politics

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GOD, from Kendrick Lamar's DAMN, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for Music.  

Tonight and tomorrow are Yom Ha-Shoah, and this is a post commemorating the deaths of the Jews of Latvia, among whom were my grandfather...

Several waves of people occupied the cave where these paintings appear: the silhouettes of the hands were created in a period between 13,0...

On a different note, from the New York Times editorial for today - Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development, showed utt...

Why was Yaser Murtaja killed, and why were six other Palestinian journalists wounded on Friday, April 6, 2018? Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man wr...

Yasser Murtaja, with a cat sitting on his camera. A eulogy by Anas N. Almassri, posted on his Facebook page. While at work today, I w...

I feel sick about what is happening in Gaza. I've read all the justifications for why Israeli forces have to use live fire, about how Ha...

I have the feeling of Big Brother creeping into our lives.... Homeland Security to Compile Database of Journalists, Bloggers Photo b...

It's just astonishing to see how many posts can be made to a Facebook page called " The Labour Party Supporter " that are blat...

I joined the Facebook group "Labour Party Supporter," which Jeremy Corbyn used to be a member of ( he's not anymore , althoug...

Re-upping this post from three years ago: The  Jewish Studies Library at Oxford  has posted a charming article about depictions of cats at...

Statement by the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council: Today, leaders of British Jewry tell Jeremy Corbyn...

Liam Hoare on Twitter has assembled a greatest hits list of Jeremy Corbyn's association with blatant antisemites. Jeremy Corbyn is the ...

The world is listening to Parkland teens. Some Philly kids wonder: Why not us ? Milan Sullivan is horrified that 17 people died in a mass...

While engaging in the egotistical practice of looking myself up on Google, I found a link to a letter I wrote in 1982 to the radical feminis...

Good article in the Forward by Ben Faulding, an African American Jew, about Louis Farrakhan : Louis Farrakhan is more than just a bigot, ...

Tamika Mallory issued a public statement today: Activist  Tamika Mallory  has faced backlash in recent weeks for attending  Saviour’s Da...