Right now, it’s really hot in India. With temperatures in Calcutta in the high 90s – or mid-thirties if you’re metric, Indians are scrambling to find relief any way they can. And...
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Note to Yitzhak Herzog: Please Just Shut the Hell Up Already
– – – Dear Yitzhak Herzog, Please just shut up and go away already. In case you haven’t heard the news yet, you lost the elections that were held two months ago – badly. Why is it...
Vanity
Vanity is not one of the seven Noahide laws. It’s not even one of the seven deadly sins – sort of. Vanity is considered a subset of pride. But when Dutch painter Hieronymous Bosch...
A Book Review — Theodor Herzl: A New reading, by Georges Yitshak Weisz
– – Theodor Herzl: A New reading, by Georges Yitshak Weisz. Translated from Hebrew by Diana File and Lenn Schramm. 295 pages, Gefen Publishing House, 2013. If you grew up in the American...
Shame on you Haaretz and Amos Biderman!
– Israeli political cartoonist Amos Biderman has shocked the world with his latest in which he depicts Binyamin Netanyahu as a 9/11 bomber. The cartoon, which appeared in the Israeli Hebrew...
Selichot Like You’ve Never Heard Them Before!
Selichot are special prayers for forgiveness that are recited on fast days as well as during the period just before Yom Kippur. These prayers are generally recited just before dawn as the Jewish...