Author - themiddle

I’m not kidding, there is some great stuff being posted on that site. 60bloggers was put together, in part, by our own Rabbi Yonah and ck along with the Let My People Sing festival. It has...

Anybody else finding the last few weeks a little surreal? I have no idea whether there are many Jews in Puerto Rico, but I think Florida Jewish Democrats should be genuinely angry at having their...

Neot Kedumim Archeological dig in Neot Kedumim biblical landscape park, west from Jerusalem (image source). Shabbat Shalom!

Ruth Gruber has written a brief personal history of a critical moment in the creation of the state of Israel. Fascinating. IT was Friday, May 14, 1948. I was sitting in the press section of the...

Photo by YanivG. YanivG has an entire set called “Text.” Interesting stuff. SHABBAT SHALOM!

Erez Lev Ari. I have no idea who he is. Mashina.

This was to be expected. First it was the government leveling charges at Agriprocessors, then it was PETA with some video that turned many Jews into vegetarians. Now we’re back to the...

In 1946 the Yishuv – Mandatory Palestine’s Jewish community – built this road, designed by engineer