Mystical Politics

The FBI has put up on its website all of the Hate Crime Statistics reports since 1996. I took a look at all of them for the purpose of comp...

Arash Kamangir has some good questions on his blog about the latest FBI statistics. He pointed out that to make a true comparison between a...

The FBI has released the report on 2006 Hate Crime Statistics, and it is very interesting to examine those hate crimes based on the religiou...

Some more Google Earth images. The first one is of the neighborhood I've lived in Jerusalem - Emek Refaim. The second is of the Old City...

I was using Google Earth yesterday and found the city of Liepaja, Latvia - I was trying to find the street (Barena iela) that my grandfather...

When I was at the gym earlier today I was watching CNN and they were reporting something about the House bill to ban anti-gay discrimination...

The The Ithaca Journal just published my letter in reply to McGowan, I'm happy to say. Those who call themselves “Holocaust revisioni...

Another posting by Daniel McGowan makes his Holocaust denial more apparent. He says: When Elie Wiesel took Oprah Winfrey to Auschwitz, th...

For more information on Zundel, the Canadian court judgement against him is very useful. It is available at Court Judgement . Zundel has bee...

In today's Ithaca Journal, probably in response to Lipstadt's talk, Daniel McGowan , emeritus professor of economics at Hobart and W...

Professor Lipstadt's talk on Thursday night was excellent and very well-attended. Many students and community members came to hear her c...

Dr. Deborah Lipstadt will be speaking on Thursday evening at Ithaca College on "Holocaust Denial: A New Form of Anti-Semitism." Sh...

A great op-ed by Doris Lessing , in today's New York Times is a great antidote to another op-ed earlier in the week by Slavoj Zizek on ...

What I don't understand about Ann Coulter is in what way is she actually a Christian ? She claims to be a Christian, and says that Jews ...

The Jewish Week provides the context for McCain's remark about "Talmudic Discussion": Jewish Democrats, however, blasted Mc...

Today's New York Times has another chilling story - this time an op-ed piece by Nathaniel Deutch, of Swarthmore College, about the Mand...

Fr. Patrick Desbois, a Catholic priest has been documenting the Holocaust in Ukraine by interviewing people who were only children or teena...

Carla Sulzbach, one of my correspondents, sent me many useful links on the topic of why people use "G-d" instead of "God....

Jews and Muslims criticized McCain's remarks on the U.S. as a "Christian nation." The American Jewish Committee has criticize...

Good critique of McCain by David Kuo , who used to work in the White House office of "faith-based" initiatives. The comments to th...