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December 2010

December 08, 2010

The Western Wall: “A Religious Discotheque”

Had my trip to Israel not been cancelled, there’s one place that I would not...

December 05, 2010

It’s Time For “Who Can Say The Most Ridiculous Thing About A Natural Disaster?”

Fires are spreading throughout the “holy” land and so it’s time for our favorite religion-based...

November 2010

November 12, 2010

The Stoopid…It Hurts! Rabbinical Edition

Just when I was wondering when I would find something appropriate for my next post,...

November 03, 2010

A New Era In Israeli Civil Rights? Hardly

In what would appear at first blush to be a major move forward for civil...

October 2010

October 29, 2010

Portion Of The Week From An Israeli Heretic!

I do very much enjoy the studying the bible as literature. Along with that comes...

October 24, 2010

A Priest And A Rabbi Walk Into A Science Lab

I guess today is religion versus faith day in Ottawa because the Ottawa Citizen online...

October 21, 2010

Rabbis Urge Rejection Of Israeli-Arab Tenants

Oh why must they keep proving my point? From Haaretz: A group of 18 prominent...

October 21, 2010

Rabbi Sacks Hearts Pope Ratzi

The Jewish experience of suffering should have taught us never to side with evil. In...

October 17, 2010

“Maybe It’s A Mitzva” For Gay Kids To Kill Themselves

Here is a horrifying story of Orthodox homophobia as told in the New York Jewish...

October 12, 2010

A Meaningless Change In Israeli Kashrut

One of the weirdest conversations I’ve ever heard was at a family event where the...

October 11, 2010

Maybe They Would Be Happy With More Dead Gay Teens

If you’re not in the mood for anger, then you probably shouldn’t read this. The...

October 06, 2010

Update On Jersey Jewish Paper’s Same-Sex Announcement

UPDATE: Jewish Daily Report is reporting that the pressure placed on the New Jersey Jewish...

October 06, 2010

Orthodox Homophobia Causes Pain – But For Whom?

When the New Jersey Jewish Standard ran a same-sex wedding announcement, its editors were unprepared...

October 06, 2010

Orthodox Homophobia Causes Pain – But For Whom?

When the New Jersey Jewish Standard ran a same-sex wedding announcement, its editors were unprepared...

September 2010

September 21, 2010

The Haggada Says To Kill Gentiles…Or Something Like That

The Jerusalem Report is carrying a detailed story about the book published by two radical...

September 16, 2010

Parasites ‘R’ Us

Rabbi Daniel Lapin is head of Toward Tradition, a politically conservative political group. He got...

September 15, 2010

Women And Tradition

Way back when I was first exposed to rabbinic literature, one of the things that...

September 12, 2010

Stephen Hawking and the Chief Rabbi

One of my greatest frustrations with some people of faith is their recruitment of famous...