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Etgar Keret, an acclaimed Israeli author and filmmaker, talks with New Voices about potheads, politics and levitating in love.
Last week, Udi Sommer wrote an op-ed for the Christian Science Monitor (normally one of my favorite news sites)Â with a somewhat radical proposal. Â In his piece, he suggested that the International Olympic Committee award Jerusalem the 2020 Summer Olympics, albeit with one very important stipulation. Sommer argues that this privilege – if one dare call […]
In his “Empowered Judaism,” Elie Kaunfer writes that the independent minyan movement has the power to save American Judaism. But will it become yet another denomination, or will it have the capacity to transform American Jewish life?
Some say that a British accent makes everything better. But can an accent improve hatred? A new book out, entitled Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England, by Anthony Julius, investigates anti-Jewish sentiment in the land of nobles and fish ‘n’ chips. A blog by Canadian writer Barbara Kay examines what she […]
This post comes in response to Harpo Jaeger’s critique of my Holocaust Remembrance Day post from last week. Harpo accuses me of promoting Jewish exceptionalism. While my post dealt with the importance of remembering the Holocaust and not with Jewish achievement, I believe that Jews should be proud of their exceptionalism and there is no […]
And you thought you needed a high school diploma to get elected to political office. Rachel Lester, a 15-year old sophomore at Los Angeles’s Jewish  Shalhevet School, won an election last week to serve as a representative to the South Robertson Neighborhood council. Her victory makes her the youngest representative ever elected to an LA neighborhood council. […]
Thanks to everyone who read my article (“Don’t Hate the Jewish State,” April 12) and especially to those of you who took the time to respond to it, either critically or in support. My article drew so many critical comments because it addressed an idea that makes Jews uncomfortable: that Judaism and Jewish identity do […]
Jewlicious, a three-day national Jewish festival and conference for young Jews in southern California, wanted to bring together Orthodox and Reform, hipsters and hippies, New Yorkers and Los Angelenos. But what happens when those Jews all find themselves in the same place?
This post is cross-posted from J Street U’s blog. Dual Israeli-American citizenship can make me feel a tad schizophrenic. At our small Passover seder this March I sat next to Gilad Shalit, or at least the chair set for him by our friends on the moshav. The empty seat seemed to lodge a big splinter […]