How to Build a Terrorist
We all know that terrorists are the fault of the occupiers, who create an environment of hopelessness and despair in which young men and women see nothing better in their future. We’re sure it...
Category: Israel
Now It’s OK to work with the Religious Right
Ten years ago, liberal Jews heaped scorn upon those Orthodox — like Rabbi Daniel Lapin of Toward Tradition — who worked with Evangelical Christians on issues where they found common cause. Although liberal Jewish...
What is the “Haredi Education Law?”
As one person pointed out in comments this afternoon, the two Degel haTorah representatives are negotiating to join Olmert’s failing government. Their intended goal is to ensure passage of something called the “Haredi Education...
What Is Wrong With This Picture?
Watch this video at your own peril. It will be painful. You will see young, happy Israelis. They are exuberant, articulate, and full of confidence. They seem pretty clean-cut. No tattoos or piercings or...
Schorsch’s Problem Isn’t Orthodox Jews
Reading Jonathan Schorsch’s latest salvo in his debate with Rabbi Shafran, I can only say that I am struck by how incredibly disingenuous he is. He is marketing a particularly virulent hatred, while piously...
History, Historians and How Not to Approach History
by Steve Brizel I don’t like to react to accusations, statements and articles by heterodox scholars. They have no halachic or hashkafic significance to me. I also believe that the evidence on the ground...
Sorry, Rabbi Ellenson, but it’s not Hatred
The President of Hebrew Union College has written his latest screed denouncing the Orthodox, and, just to be sure the article is as inflammatory as possible, either he or the Forward’s editors have entitled...
The Winograd Commission drops a bomb
The conduct of last summer’s war in Lebanon struck most observers as incoherent. Only after 32 days of fighting, and with the U.N. Security Council already scheduled to vote on a ceasefire resolution, did...
A Charedi Majority, with Buying Power
The Jerusalem Post reports that “every fourth baby born in Israel is haredi and so is 52% of the Jewish population under 18 year old.” Yay for the charedim, right? Well, I was scared...
Does the Reform Movement care about Israel?
One aspect of the recent resolution passed by the American Reform movement calling upon President Bush and Congress “to set a time table for phased and expeditious withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq”...
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