Mystical Politics

David Aaronovitch, a columnist for the Times of London, writes about another thing that Corbyn refused to denounce : the statement by a Lia...

Jeremy Corbyn, painfully refusing to apologize for antisemitism in the British Labour Party. Andrew Neil - Wouldn't you like to ta...

Jim Dedham of Shiraz Socialist (and Workers Liberty) has a good response to the Chief Rabbi's statement and Jeremy Corbyn's disastr...

The British Chief Rabbi has just weighed in on the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn. This is his statement, published in The Times. For those ...

My grandfather, Dr. Mark Falcon Lesses, published a number of research articles over the year. In the same box with his certificate from the...

I'm visiting family in Massachusetts now, and I was looking through a box that contained old photos and other documents about or by my g...

I feel deeply affected by the attempted murder of Jews at prayer in Halle, Germany, on Yom Kippur, and by the murder of two people on the st...

For those who fool themselves into thinking that Jews in Europe are only targeted by Neo-Nazis, see Anshel Pfeffer's latest column for H...

I wonder if it's occurred to the people who organized Miko Peled's talk in Ithaca in 2016 to feel a bit of shame in retrospect, con...

Statement by network of (mostly) American Jewish Zionist organizations against the annexation of the West Bank. September 10th, 2019 Progre...

Valerie Plame is running for Congress for the third district of New Mexico. Yair Rosenberg writes about her: " Many know Plame as a f...

Ghetto Wall in 1943 The Ghetto was cut off from the rest of Warsaw on November 16, 1940. Approximately 360,000 Warsaw Jews and 90,000 Jews...

I'm reading an article about metaphors in the Sumerian language in The Ancient Near East Today , published by ASOR (American Schools of...

Today I visited a lovely little art gallery in Arnona, Jerusalem, with a friend - La Vie en Rose. It's owned by Steve Selig, who is tra...

At the end of the street I'm staying on in Israel, there's a house that's almost entirely surrounded by tall reeds. They'...

None of the 16th-17th century wooden synagogues of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth survive today. Those that survived wars and fires wer...

I'm in Israel for a couple of weeks, and there's another election coming up. There was one earlier this year, but Bibi was unable to...

I've been in Warsaw since last Friday. I came for the annual meeting of the European Association for Biblical Studies, where I gave a ...