Jimmy Carter, Hamas and the Obama Administration
Over at Foreign Policy, the diligent Laura Rozen has an interesting blog item on Barack Obama’s Jimmy Carter problem. Rozen cites a Fox News report that the former president will press the...
View ArticleCheers And Fears: The Debate Over Kiddush Clubs
A recent opinion piece in The Jewish Week by three doctors expressing alarm about so-called kiddush clubs, a phenomenon mostly found in Modern Orthodox shuls, was bound to generate some...
View ArticleRabbi Haskel Lookstein (and Casablanca's Vctor Laszlo) Join Fight Against Mosque
With Rabbi Haskel Lookstein coming out agaInst the location of mosque at Ground Zero (see his sermon below), I'm reminded of nothing less than Victor Laszlo telling Bogart at the Casablanca airport,...
View ArticleWhen Technology & Shabbat Collide, Give the Benefit of the Doubt
This past Sunday, the president of New York University issued a mass e-mail apology to students and staff. The day after Yom Kippur might sound like a sensible day for issuing apologies, but the...
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Bubbie and Zaydie in the Social Media Cloud
When I first logged on to Facebook in 2004 none of my real life friends had accounts yet. At that stage in the social networking site's development, a Facebook account was only for university students...
View ArticleMore Intermarried Bloggers
This may come as a shock to you, but I am not the only intermarried mom who blogs about raising Jewish kids (among other in-the-mix-y topics).InterfaithFamily.com recently launched a fabulous new...
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Agunah Cases in the Age of Facebook
Cross-posted to Blog.RabbiJason.com United States Representative Dave Camp is a proud Roman Catholic. The Republican congressman represents Michigan's 4th District in Congress which includes places in...
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Finally! Advice on Whether or Not Jewish Boys are Dateable!
When my friend sent me a link with “date-jewish-boy” in the URL, I had hoped that Andrew Garfield had finally decided to ask me out. Alas, instead I was sent this article by the “Elite Daily.”The...
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