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January 2017

January 06, 2017

Trumpism Unites Neo-Nazis, Jewish Defense League

Anyone remember the Jewish Defense League? Not to be confused with the Anti-Defamation League, the...

January 03, 2017

Jackie Mason Has Opinions

Two straight days of blogging here. The impending inauguration must be messing with me. I thought I’d...

January 02, 2017

The New Resistance

It was back in August that I blogged here for the last time. I wrote...

August 2016

August 05, 2016

Jewish Community: Black Lives Matter No Matter What

I’m going to take a break from my gleeful Trump posts to deal with an...

August 03, 2016

What Scares Trump? Black Votes Matter

Whiny little brat Trump mocked a woman with a crying baby at his rally yesterday...

August 01, 2016

With Trump, Nothing Is “Too Far”

Everywhere that I turn, the media are asking, “Did Trump go too far with his...

July 2016

July 27, 2016

Misogynists Threaten the Life of a 5-Year Old

Yes, you read that correctly. One of my feminist heroes, Jessica Valenti, has suspended her...

July 27, 2016

Don’t Like Hillary? How Does “Trump Administration” Sound?

So you don’t like Hillary? She’s too “crooked” for you? The Donald’s tabloidian designation of...

June 2016

June 13, 2016

The Atrocity in Orlando

Here is the message that I sent out yesterday to my own community: Today our...

May 2016

May 24, 2016

Republican Jewish Coalition Is Spineless

My previous post about Trump raised the hackles of a couple of members of the...

May 05, 2016

What Do Sheldon Adelson, Stormfront, the KKK, and Louis Farrakhan Have in Common?

I have to say that I’m beginning to understand why evangelical ministers protest about their...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

Support Target Stores’ Inclusivity!

As some of you know, Target stores have taken a stance in support of transgender...

February 2016

February 26, 2016

Why I’m Still a Zionist

(Update: Since the original publication of this post, it has been repeatedly pointed out to me...

February 23, 2016

My Crisis of Zionism

True Zionist confessions: As a campus Hillel director and later a JCC professional, I was...

February 09, 2016

Liberal Jews Get a Piece of the Rock

If you follow news of the Jewish world, by now you have heard about the...

January 2016

January 21, 2016

Home of Israeli Secular Humanistic Leader Vandalized

This is the sort of "breaking news" that I don't usually blog about, but in...

January 19, 2016

Conservative Rabbis and the Intermarriage Dilemma

It has been noted that there really are no Conservative Jews, just Conservative rabbis. Last...

December 2015

December 30, 2015

Israeli Crackdown on Left-Wing Groups Continues

News out of Jerusalem this week is that the right-wing government has given the thumbs-up...

December 24, 2015

Schlonged!

Warning: This post contains bad words. Sorry about that. But we’re all adults here and...

December 17, 2015

Defaming the Left in Israel

Israeli right-wingers are going off the rails and taking Israeli democracy with them. The Jewish...

December 04, 2015

Prayer-Shaming, Jewish Style

Well it seems that the topic of the day is “prayer-shaming,” prompted by yesterday’s New...

November 2015

November 16, 2015

Israeli Extremists Respond to Paris Massacre

Haaretz writer Uri Misgav has published a powerful blog post about right-wing nationalist Orthodox Jewish...

November 10, 2015

Greta Christina’s “More Atheists Who Aren’t Dawkins or Harris: Jeffrey L. Falick”

Sorry there haven't been new posts here for a few weeks. Here's a short one...actually...

October 2015

October 26, 2015

Does Torah Command Immediate Execution of Disarmed Terrorists?

To my liberal rabbinical colleagues who hold the view that the Torah’s wisdom is necessary...

October 19, 2015

Ben Carson Hates Israel!

Ben Carson speaks with great authority about the Bible. This is in spite of the...

October 16, 2015

It’s the Occupation, Stupid

View image | gettyimages.comI’ve mentioned before that I’m still a paid-up member of the Reform...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Francis and Kim

I was not planning to write about the visit of the Bishop of Rome, whom...

September 29, 2015

Happy Sukkot!

It's Sukkot...the "Feast of Tabernacles"! Being a busy Secular Humanistic rabbi at the holiday season,...

September 19, 2015

Now ALL the Jews Hate Ann Coulter!

All the Jews are up in arms about Ann Coulter. Liberal Jews, like liberal everyone-elses,...

September 17, 2015

Christian-Jewish Relations in 5776

Let's talk about the state of "Christian-Jewish" relations! For most of the past 2,000 years,...

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