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Oh, Focus on the Family, if you weren’t so scary and powerful, I’d call you the gift that keeps on giving, since truly, there is always something new with you. This year, for example, you bring us Stand For Christmas to help us figure out... 

Some people see halakha as a sort of calculator into which you enter circumstances and from which you obtain answers. Some people see it as a great tide sweeping across time and space and carrying the Jews willy-nilly with it. And some people see it... 

Recently, the Rabbinic Assembly, the organisation that represents Conservative rabbis, issued a statement, signed by 300 members, asking that Nazi rhetoric not be used in political discussions. The JTA reported they included examples such as “Southern... 

Actually this isn’t so much the thing itself that’s weird as the place selling it: apparently CostCo is now going to sell “The Illustrated Torah.” Good, bad or indifferent – what do you all think? Is this too weird, or just... 

Actually this isn’t so much the thing itself that’s weird as the place selling it: apparently CostCo is now going to sell “The Illustrated Torah.” Good, bad or indifferent – what do you all think? Is this too weird, or just... 

(Actually, a five-letter word for a female dog) by Bill Levinson Obama’s Web Site: Hub of Hate describes how the moderators who exercise editorial control over Barack Obama’s Web site approved the most vicious imaginable anti-Semitic material,... 

by Jamie Glazov at Front Page Magazine (interview with Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs) http://frontpagemag.com/2009/10/28/obamas-website-hub-of-hate-by-jamie-glazov/ FP: Pamela Geller, welcome back to Frontpage Interview. You have been observing Obama’s... 

Israel21C Solar technologies create a cleaner environment and break our dependence on oil. ISRAEL21c takes a look at the top seven solar technologies being developed in Israel. They’re on investors’ hit lists and the green tech media is keen... 

Tablet Magazine hit another home run again today, with Josh Lambert’s column – On the Bookshelf – focusing on immigrants and emigres. In his coverage of peripatetic Jewish families, he mentioned a slew of good books . In Jacob’s Cane:... 

“Lights, Camera, Social Action – Jewesses in Hollywood” Olivia Cohen-Cutler, senior vice-president of ABC Television, chair of the Morningstar Commission, and board member of the Jewish Women’s Archive will lead a discussion on the...