Religious Girls, Thinness, and Social Expectations
As a follow-up to Shira Schmidt’s post about religious girls, weight, and self-esteem: In one area I think we do a lot better than the non-Jewish world, and that has to do with social...
Author: Toby Katz
Preparing for Jewish burial — the 7th of Adar
The body lies on a stainless steel table, draped with a sheet. Together with three other women, I cut away the body bag and hospital clothes, remove bandages, pull out IV lines. We wash...
Who is Hollywood’s audience?
Responding to Yitzchok Adlerstein’s post about a movie that’s much in the news, Eliezer Barzilai wrote: “there are movies in which a spouse comes back as a child (Birth), or as a person of...
Valentine’s Day: Why does the ACLU not sue to keep this religion out of school?
Doing carpool today, taking my kids home from school, we passed by the local public high school. Kids were streaming out of the public school, many of them carrying big heart-shaped helium baloons for...
Judaism is not racist, and neither am I
In a recent post of mine, titled “Disclaimer” I wrote about the violence of Jewish police against peaceful Jewish protesters in Amona. The gravamen of my post was that Israeli police should not treat...
Disclaimer: I don’t think police should treat ANYONE with unnecessary brutality
Had to put that disclaimer up there to forestall what will otherwise be the inevitable wrong-headed deduction some people will make after they read this post. OK, now that I got that out of...
In what sense is this a religious blog?
In the comments to Yakov Menken’s latest JIB post, Micha wrote: But in what sense is this a religious blog, rather than a political blog run by religious people? and Shlomo added: Let me...
Israel = Global Pollution?
It has just come to my attention that the Green Party has recently called for a boycott of the State of Israel. Here is the wording of the resolution: Green Party Resolution to Divest...
Chanuka — defeat or victory?
My Chanuka post drew a comment pointing out that the Chanuka victory of the Maccabees over the Greeks was not very long-lived, because the Chashmonaim (Maccabees) betrayed their own cause in the end: And...
Chanuka — holiday of pluralism or holiday of truth?
With Chanuka coming in a few days we can be sure that along with the Chanuka tree and the Chanuka wreath, we will have the annual round of phony newspaper stories about Chanuka being...
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