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“Abraham’s Daughters,” a play now showing in New York City, explores the complicated social dynamics between a group of four freshman friends–a Jew, a Muslim, a Christian and an atheist. If you think that sounds complicated, wait until they start dating.
In what will surely be a hot news topic during the next few days, former chair of the Republican National Committee Ken Mehlman has just come out. Mehlman was also President Bush’s campaign manager in 2004, and held these influential positions in the GOP as the party mounted a significant anti-gay rights charge. This is […]
Yesterday, we posted my review of two new machzorim, pluralist Machzor Eit Ratzon and Conservative Mahzor Lev Shalem. If you’re into brevity, or less obsessed with liturgy than I am, I recommend that review. If however, you like to read very long things or you’re into siddur design and liturgical minutiae, head on over to […]
You thought the progressive voice in Israel was dying and that progressive policy couldn’t happen? Well, check out today’s Reading List, my doubting friend: In what may be one of the biggest long-term steps to coexistence in the land, Israel is now requiring Arabic language education across its school system. [Ha’aretz] A new liberal Israeli […]
Who cares if the 42-year old Julia Roberts still manages to look like she’s thirty? Jewblogs across the internets (well, two of them, at least) have given two thumbs down to the self-absorbed story of a woman going on a culinary-spiritual dream tour around the world so she can find herself. This critique from Tablet […]
Two new machzors, one from the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and the other from a professor at Rutgers University, have come out just in time for the High Holy Days. New Voices Editor at Large David AM Wilensky reviews them both,
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Mosque-Erade www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party The Daily Show’s John Oliver wouldn’t. Arguing with resident MOT Jon Stewart about religious freedom and taboo, he says: “Jews can wear yarmulkes on Good Friday to celebrate the day you successfully murdered […]
And they’re off. For the first time since the 2007 Annapolis Conference, the US is restarting direct talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. This comes after numerous strains in the US-Israel relationship (Settlement Freeze, East Jerusalem, Flotilla, etc.), months of “proximity talks” wherein the US met separately with the Izzies and Pallies to convince them […]
Baba Ganoush is one of those things that has made its way from Arab culture to Israeli culture to Trader Joe’s. It’s also one of those things, though it is available world wide, that will always be better in the Middle East. I always kind of liked it and I always kind of wondered what […]
The vitriol of conservative talk radio never ceases to amaze me. First, Glenn Beck compares social justice to Nazism, and now Rush Limbaugh says that those who work in non-profits are “lazy idiots” and “rapists in terms of finance and economy.” Well, Rush, to show you that I’m not lazy (and not a rapist), I’m […]