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The Israeli government, along with the Jewish National Fund, has unveiled several extensive projects to bring a larger supply drinking water into Israel. But, says Danielle Barmash, those projects do not address the core issue of the Israeli water shortage: ever-increasing demand.
Adam Sales is a graduate student at the University of Michigan. HaRav Yehuda Amital, one of the great contemporary Jewish leaders and thinkers–and one of my personal heroes–passed away in Jerusalem last Thursday night, July 9, at the age of 86. Rav Amital was born Yehuda Klein in Transylvania in 1924, and survived the Holocaust […]
What began as a research appointment in the Agricultural Ministry of Malawi turned into a conversation about life, family and why such different people can also be so similar
After I got home from work today, I pried my hair off my sweat-soaked neck and flopped down on my bed. Flipping on the air conditioning, I turned my computer on and searched for an episode of Friends that I hadn’t seen yet. Knowing there were none, I settled into a re-run, as happily as […]
The recent rebroadcast of the summer camp episode of This American Life has me thinking this week about Jew Camp, which will be my name for the camp where I spent the five summers prior to this one. Jew Camp is an odd Jewish summer camp because all of the campers–participants, as we called them–are […]
One student goes to a synagogue because the services are longer. Another has found her Judaism in communal living. A third engages religiously by participating in a non-religious neighborhood council. How students are finding Jewish experiences by leaving campus.
I last blogged about the controversy surrounding Pride Toronto’s decision to ban the group “Queers Against Israeli Apartheid” from marching in this year’s pride parade. Since then, the controversy has done anything but slow down. After the decision, QuAIA accused the city of censoring their freedom of speech, and organized resistance in an attempt to […]
Being a comic book nerd is hard enough when people think you have no social life. But is it un-American? Phyllis Chesler seems to think so. In her latest article, Chesler cites how Wonder Woman’s new costume shows American submission to the evils of globalization. Chesler says Wonder Woman’s getup is “non-American, and therefore anti-American†[…]
People love to show how intellectual they are nowadays by drawing historical parallels between the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other seemingly similar past events. Thus, Iraq is Vietnam; no, wait, Iraq is the Tripoli Wars; no, wait, Iraq is the Gulf War gone bad… No, wait, says Christopher Dickey, Iraq and Afghanistan should […]
The author takes a remarkable journey from an Orthodox farming town to a Tel Aviv highway to a Palestinian village in the West Bank to a coffee shop in central Israel. And that was just one day.