Arts and Culture
We're Not White Trash. We're Jews.
Holocaust education sure ain’t what it used to be. What happens when two adolescent girls try to steal books about the Shoah - from their local public library.
Life and Action
Untranslateable
What mevushal wine, teviled whisks and b’dikah have to do with evangelical prayer cloths and old cars.
Arts and Culture
A Children's Tale: The White Ribbon Turns Michael Haneke's Bleak Filmmaking Back On Itself
Controversial director Michael Haneke takes a new approach with The White Ribbon, nominated for a “Best Foreign Film” Oscar. The film has a lot to tell us about the state of storytelling today and what we can learn from the period, right before World War I, in which it is set.
Faith and Practice
Control and Order, Wonder and Chaos
This Lord of orderliness troubles me, maybe because I am a messy person. Keeping my meat dishes apart from my milk ones challenges my disorganized soul. And makes me wonder: is it God who wants an orderly world, or is it we who attribute order to God?
Faith and Practice
Their Religion is Hatred
Christian Zionism is frequently conflated with two other equally racist brands of Protestantism: Christian Identity and British Israelism. While acknowledging their shared antipathy towards Jews, Bruce Wilson emphasizes that it is important to appreciate their differences.
Life and Action
Jewish Media Split Over Innovation: 28 or 613?
[Dateline: Purim] In the Diasporic world created by the Internet, in which multiple Jewish media camps have arisen to dispute the ethos of Jewish identity, a new, significant conflict has arisen over the number of ideas permissible for Jewish innovation.
News and Politics
Our Heritage is Multicultural
The Land of Israel may be the Zion of prophecy, but the state of Israel is a political reality and a piece of real estate that, whatever the future holds, Jews will be sharing with others. It’s time Israeli and Diaspora Jewry figured out how to come to grips with that reality.
Arts and Culture
Knitting Peace
Slideshow of Michele Feder-Nadoff’s recent installation at the Elmhurst Gallery Accelerator Space.
Arts and Culture
Voices of the Levites
Playing with Israeli Messianism can be dangerous, but the groundbreaking Israeli band Kolot HaLevi’im (Voices of the Levites) reconstructs the past with a hybrid musical aesthetic and theological creatiivity that takes us very much into a progressive present.
Arts and Culture
The Trees
This graceful short story by Israeli author Yuval Yavneh illuminates a fundamental human connectedness.
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