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The Shmaltz Brewing Company, known for its He’brew: The Chosen Beer, is celebrating its thirteenth anniversary with a special new brew, The Jewbelation Bar Mitzvah. It will feature 13 hops, 13 malts, and a 13% alcohol content. In addition to the 13-themed beer, Shmaltz is running a bar mitzvah photo contest, giving awards in categories…
Here we go again. In what the New York Times calls a historic shift, President Obama has called for the limiting of settlements in the West Bank. And so no one was surprised to hear loads of  criticism from the right, this one courtesy of the ever-ideological Caroline Glick. The truth is that this debate over…
Stupid racist Jewish college students on the streets of Jerusalem, from Max Blumenthal via Philip Weiss. The video blew me away. I don’t know what to make of it. In a recent editorial, I argued that our generations’ attitudes towards Israel are, for various historical reasons, more sensible than those of our parents’ generation. Who…
Amidst the political changes in the U.S. and Israel, one important shift went largely unnoticed. Last week the Knesset took an unprecedented step, one which reflected a gradual shift that has occurred over the last several decades. In its first-ever Yiddish Language and Culture Day, last Tuesday the Knesset went out of its way to…
Our post last week on Rabbi Manis Friedman’s statement to Moment magazine calling for the murder of Palestinian civilians seems to have generated a bunch of attention. The JTA and Failed Messiah linked to us on Monday, and tonight both the Forward and the JTA have features on Friedman’s comments, as does the Pioneer Press…
Welcome to the future. We may not have flying cars or a baller Starship Enterprise to battle aliens but as of today, the New Voices blog will be taking its content to the next level. Now, when you visit our site, you’ll find new blog posts every day by a group of writers from around the…
In March, Rabbi Avi Weiss, the founder and president of a liberal Orthodox rabbinical school, effectively ordained Sara Hurwitz as the first female Orthodox rabbi- but without giving her the title of “rabbi.â€Â Though her course of study was the same as that of the men in the rabbinical school founded by Weiss, it was…