Mystical Politics

It's just after 9 pm in Israel, and when the polls close at 10:00 pm, we'll get news about the exit polls. I'm starting to get n...

Whenever I see an article in the New York Times that mentions Israel or Jews in any way, and comments for the article are open, I feel disma...

An article from the Daily Mail presents several instances of people "walking while Jewish" through various European cities - all ...

A couple of days ago, a friend and I went in search of a calm, natural place to spend a couple of hours, and we found the Eshta'ol ...

Today, ancient Assyrian statues were destroyed. But many more still remain, and the past will never be whitewashed. pic.twitter.com/NbwbzX9...

Tablet Magazine  reports on an interesting new survey on the experiences of Jewish students of antisemitism at American colleges. A new s...

I've never been in Jerusalem for a really big snowstorm before, but now I have my own photos of today's snow in Jerusalem. These wer...

What is ISIS (Daesh) and what does it want? Three recently published articles discuss the role that Islamic eschatology (ideas about the ...

While here in Bochum I thought it might be wise to improve my command of the German language. I learned German in high school for four years...

Statement on the Revd Stephen Sizer by the Bishop of Guildford Sizer has *finally* been prohibited from engaging in any speech, writing, ...

It's been exceptionally cloudy and rainy here the last few days, so it's nice to see a pretty sunset. View is from my living ro...

Bochum, Gelsenkirchen, and Essen, summer 2014 I've been hesitant to write on the topic of anti-Israel demonstrations that happened in ...

This is an outrageous denial of reality. Three Palestinians in Germany threw firebombs at the synagogue in Wuppertal this past July. They we...

Anthony Hall, a defender of Sizer's Facebook post about the 9/11 Truthers who claim Israeli/Jewish involvement in the 9/11 attacks, has ...

SJP at DePaul University in Chicago:  Why does DePaul group honor a convicted killer? This Tuesday, Feb. 3, Rasmieh Odeh, a convicted kill...