People of the Book: Not Asking or Telling
Times are hard for those who want to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell. "Major setback for 'don't ask' repeal," blared a headline last week...
Learning the Right Lessons?
By Symi Rom-Rymer
In a recent poll, 30% of Israeli Arabs, out of 700 questioned, don’t believe the Holocaust happened. As the Associated Press reported earlier...
Play Hard, Pray Harder
By Gabriel Weinstein
Just two years after leaving the University of Florida facing charges of larceny and theft Auburn University quarterback Cameron Newton was full of...
Israel's Other Refugee Problem
by Daniel Kieval
On Monday night, a few days after thousands marched for human rights in Tel Aviv, Israel deported about 150 refugees back to their...
Bridging the Gender Gap in Prayer – Sort Of
By Lily Hoffman Simon
The patriarchal tradition of Orthodox Judaism is being challenged all over the world. The recent controversy surrounding the ordainment of Sara Hurwitz...
Who's Afraid of Nixon's Anti-Semitism?
By Steven Philp
As governments process the information illicitly made public by Wikileaks, the legal release of conversations recorded during the Nixon administration may seem irrelevant. ...
People of the Book: Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora
By Symi Rom-Rymer
The story of Jewish Eastern European immigration is a familiar one. Even if one never had the chance to know their relatives from...
Democracy and Religion Clash in Israel…Again
By Niv Elis and Sophie Taylor
The latest clash of liberalism and religion in Israel accentuates the difficult dilemma of how a democracy deals with the illiberal...
Israel’s Katrina
By Gabriel Weinstein
After last week’s forest fire, the Carmel region in Northern Israel’s once emerald forests and fields have become a barren prairie of charred...
Charity vs. Tzedakah: Restoring Justice to Giving
By Daniel Kieval
The "season of giving," for better and for worse, is upon us. The bestowing of gifts upon friends and family for Hanukkah and...
Maccabeats Suffer “Wardrobe Malfunction”
By Doni Kandel
The Yeshiva University Maccabeats, the university’s a capella group that has taken the United States by storm, received one of their first ugly...
Stop Screaming, and Start Talking
By Lily Hoffman Simon
Imagine the following: on one side of the room, there is a group advocating for Palestinian liberation. Facing them is a group...