There should be a Birthright America, to let the never-left-Zabars set see Appalachia, the Eugene, Oregonians sent to the evangelical exurbs, and so on. Because much of the value of Birthright Israel...
Author - phoebe
Ugh
Blogger Mobius at Jewschool seems to be bothered by the fact that Israel is not an 100% perfect country, yet American Jews have the audacity to throw a parade to celebrate its independence. He...
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Yaakov
It’s time for a tangential response to the French elections. Yair Ettinger of Haaretz reports on some happenings in Marseille that could well have inspired a certain film: There was symbolic...
Proof that Zionism ruined Judaism
Ah, Israel, the land of Jewish athleticism, Jewish militarism, Jews doing things other than (ahem) staying inside all day in somewhere like, say, Brooklyn, reading scholarly texts and checking their...
Passing
Ariel Beery pins the tendency of left-wing Jewish communities to self-destruct on Jews’ having made “the Holocaust as the pinnacle event of Jewish history.” I’m going to agree...
Eytan Fox at NYU
This evening, my favorite film director, and in his words, Israel’s most successful, none other than Eytan Fox spoke to a group of students and grown-up types at NYU’s Bronfman Center...