Have you gotten a call from the Republican Jewish Coalition recently? If you live in a contested state like Florida, Michigan, or Ohio, you just might have. You might have thought it was just another pollster, and were ready to hang up...
By Inthemoment contributor Larry Kessner. OK, I understand why the Jews are nervous about Sarah Palin. Forget all the chatter about Obama being "out of the mainstream" because he's Kenyan/Kansan/Hawaiian/Malaysian-ite-whatever-whatever. He's not out of my mainstream. The top of my class was full of Obamas....
This weekend, the Iranian men's wheelchair basketball team competing at the Paralympic Games in Beijing quit the tournament. The reason given was "dissatisfaction" with their "schedule," although there is speculation that they quit because of the possibility they would play the Israeli team in the...
At some point before I cast my ballot this November, I am going to have a dream about Sarah Palin. It is just inevitable—she is everywhere right now. And though I may be a would-be Palin dreamer, I am not alone. As of Friday, Slate...
Yesterday we wrote about Rabbis for Obama. Today, according to a Forward article, we should focus on Rabbis for McCain. Well, sort of. Says the Forward: A group of leading ultra-Orthodox rabbis in Israel is preparing to release a statement that urges the country’s American expatriates...
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRZLgqGcIz8] Over 300 American rabbis publicly announced their support for Barack Obama yesterday with the launch of a “Rabbis for Obama” website. The movement was founded by Rabbis Sam Gordon and Steve Bob of Illinois in response to what they call the “smear campaign against Obama” that...
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) began an astounding experiment yesterday, where they hope to recreate the "Big Bang" from which scientists believe our universe was created. The experiment involves smashing tiny particles together at speeds close to the speed of light, and seeing...
Interesting news out of Israel yesterday, where Pensioners Affairs Minister Rafi Eitan said Israel could kidnap Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and bring him to court. Eitan, a former Mossad agent who helped track Adolf Eichmann, said: The era of hunting down old Nazis is over, but...
The UNWRA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) has received a serious amount of criticism from onlookers in recent years, but according to a Christian Science Monitor article published recently, it looks like they got at least one...
[caption id="attachment_781" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Rabbi Moshe Feinstein"][/caption] In our current issue, we printed a letter from a reader who was curious about Rabbi Gershon Winkler's response to our Ask the Rabbis question ("Who Cares What Women Wear [Or Don't Wear]?") in the July/August issue. Here...