Mystical Politics

Shalom Lappin , writing in Normblog about the recent vote by the University and College Union in Britain, makes several useful points that ...

I looked on Google to see if there were any new stories about Bert Scholl, the local Ithaca man who has been diagnosed with rectal cancer an...

The President of Iran Sees "Countdown" to Israel's End . "With God's help, the countdown button for the destruction o...

I'm now listening to an idiotic CBS "special" on Kimberly Dozier, the CBS reporter who was severely injured last year in Iraq ...

Khaled Abu Toameh in the Jerusalem Post reports that Bearded Gazans on razor's edge between life and death . Once, Hamas members were af...

A local doctor, Martin A. Ginsburg , has written in to the Ithaca Journal about the Ithaca man who is going to Mexico for cancer treatment: ...

An AP reporter who lives in Gaza, Ibrahim Barzak , reports on the current horrendous fighting in Gaza between Fatah and Hamas: With battles ...

A local Ithaca man who has been recently diagnosed with rectal cancer is trying to raise money for an "alternative" cancer treatme...

Jimmy Carter recently met with a group of "rabbis, Christians and Muslims organized by Michael Lerner." While I'm not a fan o...

Ray Hanania on the Mideast Youth website has a very interesting posting on the upcoming demonstration in Washington to commemorate the 40th...

I've been wondering if there are any blogs whose main subject (whether written by Israelis or others) that are somewhere in the middle p...

Amos of Kishkushim reports on Jimmy Carter at Berkeley . It's an interesting account of his speech, making Carter sound much more moder...

Given the negative posts that I've written about the behavior of the Iranian regime and its president, you might think that I'd be i...

Today we had our IC Hillel Israel Independence Day celebration - a day earlier than Israel (since we have Sunday off). It was fun, although ...

Of all the acts that happened at Virginia Tech on Monday, Professor Librescu's standing in the path of the shooter to save the life of ...

Peggy Williams, the president of Ithaca College, sent out an Important Message for the Campus Community on the massacre at Virgina Tech tod...

Rabbi Einat Ramon, the dean of the Masorti Rabbinical School in Jerusalem, writes in an article in the Washington Jewish Week, Healing heter...

Today is one of those moist, rainy, Ithaca days that we get so many of. The daffodils, tulips, and forsythia are just about to bloom if we e...

Normblog has pointed out a highly amusing feature of Google Maps. See New York to Paris for directions on how to get from New York to Paris...

I just discovered The Forbidden Gospels Blog , written by April DeConick, professor of biblical studies at Rice University and founder of th...

I just bought my plane ticket for travel to Israel this summer. I'll be in Jerusalem for two months, doing research and I hope finishing...

I just went to a couple of movies sponsored by FLEFF - the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, which is run by people at Ithaca Colle...

There are times when I think of the Conservative movement as being like the Episcopal Church - in its establishment nature and its stuffines...

I've been reading Michael Oren's book, Six Days of War , on the Arab-Israeli war of 1967 and its aftermath. It's fascinating and...

The New York Times reported yesterday that Sudanese in Israel Hope They Have Found a Home . This is a touching story about Sudanese from Dar...

I seem to have entered the netherland of the blog world - talking about my cat. So much for politics or religion.... Today was the beginning...

Well, I didn't manage to take any pictures, but I did just come back inside from shoveling the walk a third time today. I think about 2 ...

I went out this morning and shoveled the entire walk (which is quite long, because my house is on the corner), and then just went out now an...

It's snowing, finally - we had a very warm winter until a few weeks ago, when the Arctic cold from Canada swooped down on us and hasn...

As usual, Anne Applebaum's sharp intelligence cuts through the nonsense. Her points: 1) Saddam belonged to the well-known species of 20...

Stephen Bainbridge, a law professor at UCLA, presents an interesting Catholic perspective on whether Saddam should have been executed. Desp...

The New York Times today ran an interesting (and depressing) article about the rush to execute Saddam Hussein. It portrays the American aut...

(Ramsay Clark defending Saddam Hussein at his trial for crimes against humanity - cartoon lifted from Slate.com). In the last couple of day...

Once again, it is snowing in Jerusalem - and for once, I think that it is snowing more heavily there than here in Ithaca, where we now have...

Kamangir (an Iranian now living outside the country) has a link to a fascinating art exhibit in Tehran called "Godly religion." ...

David Horsey (of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer) has a wickedly good recent cartoon about the Iran Holocaust-denial conference.

The NPR report last night on the Iranian Holocaust conference included an interview with members of the Neturei Karta sect who attended th...

So this is the Iran that the Iraq Study Group wants us to negotiate with about Iraq? Tony Blair said: During his monthly news conference to...

The Rabbinical Assembly has now posted the teshuvot on its website: Rabbi Roth's teshuvah , "Homosexuality Revisited," and t...

While looking for something else on the web, I found this amazingly naive view of President Ahmedinejad of Iran authored by the Associate G...

A BOOK REVIEW: Jeffrey Goldberg has just reviewed Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid in the Washington Post. He quotes from several statements ...

Josh Yuter, in A Conservative Compromise lays out the alternatives open to JTS and discusses the very careful press release JTS issued yest...

I heard something about this on NPR but I thought it was a joke - but there is going to be a new show - a sitcom - on Canadian television ab...

It's about time! The Committee on Law and Standards of the Conservative movement, which decides on halakhic issues for the movement, has...

Just plugging "The International Jew" into Google comes up with several on-line publications from anti-semitic groups. It's al...

I've been reading the book Henry Ford and the Jews by Neil Baldwin, which is about how Ford promulgated Jew-hatred throughout the Unite...

Today, in the mail, I received the most recent of many pleas for money that have come from the Carter Center. I have never given any money t...