If I’ve tired of discussing Israel, it’s because I can’t seem to write a post I haven’t already written. When I saw Leonard Fein’s excellent
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In defense of secularism, shirts
Jews! Nudity! Brooklyn! Manhattan! New York Magazine’s latest cover story has it all. As is the case, I’d imagine, for most secular Jews, my relationship to Ultra-Orthodox Jews is...
Ashkenaz
Herzl was way, way off when he said that the Jewish state should use German and not Hebrew, Hebrew being, according to Herzl, too challenging. After day 1 of German class (the day after turning in my...
Intermarriage in America vs. American intermarriage
Crossposted at WWPD. This Israeli news program about intermarriage in the U.S. raises an interesting question: if the goal was to show how there’s something specific to America about the...
Politics and scholarship
Crossposted at WWPD. Last month I presented a paper at a UCLA conference on Middle Eastern and North African Jewry, so I was curious to see that UC Irvine is hosting one on similar themes. What I...
What “Jew York Times”?
Crossposted at WWPD. The NYT Weddings pages are filled with page after page of couples getting married by rabbis. The paper’s most-emailed articles are often on Jewish-related subjects. And the...