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Mentalblog posted this wonderful letter from a father to his son (also available here), where the author, Professor Moshe Koppel of Bar Ilan University, attempts to provide some guidance to his son...

For this, we have to thank some German Roman Catholic bishops who came to visit Israel. As you’ll recall, we’ve described the sad foolish actions of Professor Ariel Toaff and filmmaker...

That’s right dear readers, there is a person who has proven more foolish in his actions than Professor Toaff with his insinuations about the veracity of historic blood libels against Jews. If...

Fascinating, if a little shallow, article in the NY Times today about Chinese orphans who were adopted by Jewish families and are now reaching the age where a greater sense of being Jewish is...

Ha’aretz tells us that in testifying before the Winograd Committee which he himself set up to investigate the functioning of the government during the Lebanon “Battle” (the...

The Israel Antiquities Authority has set up an ongoing video camera broadcasting this dig on the Internet in real time. It’s really quite boring, unless you’re someone who believes the...

I know we’ve discussed this before in some of our Jewish education posts. The Forward patiently counted and reports that “Jews constituted about 24% of last year’s Forbes 400 list...