Israel: Secularizing, But Not Secular
About 15 years ago, the late writer and journalist Israel Segal, who left the ultra-Orthodox world at a young age, provided a pessimistic account of...
Women Warned Not to Say Kaddish at the Western Wall
The Jerusalem police commissioner sent a letter to Women of the Wall today warning that it would enforce the law prohibiting women's public prayer at...
The View from Istanbul: Why Iran Might Be a Threat
This was a very old plan. Shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, communists diligently planned to establish a Marxist state in one or more...
Omar Meets Omer
Today, there's more proof that The Wire--the obscure HBO series about Baltimore's drug dealers, cops, newspaper reporters that one day will get a lot of...
Jews and Booze
Professor Marni Davis (University of Georgia) got the idea to write her Ph.D. thesis –subsequently a book – on the relationship between American Jews and...
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The New York Times reports that Israel "moved closer to its goal of energy independence on Sunday as natural gas from a large offshore field...
The View from Istanbul: Peace Always Wins
People who claim to have “won” a war are lying. There are no winners in war. War may seem to have brought victory to one...
Nathan Guttman: Between Iraq and a Hard Place
Why is America’s strongest faith-based bloc that opposes the war—the Jewish community—sitting this conflict out?
From the front lines of the civil-rights movement through the Vietnam...
Maxwell House Hagaddah: Good to the Last Page
In 1923, when Maxwell House Coffee signed on with the Joseph Jacobs Advertising agency in New York, it was already a legend. Theodore Roosevelt supposedly...
The Sweet Story of Charoset
Charoset, that aromatic ensemble of fruits, nuts, spices and wine, may be the tastiest traditional food on the Seder plate, but why it is there...
Great Seder Films
Marjorie Morningstar, 1958
Crimes & Misdemeanors, 1989
It Runs in the Family, 2003
When Do We Eat?, 2005
Passover works for movies the way Christmas does: Through the lens...
Most Americans Support Immigration Reform With a Path to Citizenship, Survey Shows
The majority of Americans support immigration reform with a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, according to the findings of a new survey released by...