Diary of a Yoga-loving, Reform Rabbi in Israel
At that moment, I lost a layer of American neuroticism and became a little more connected to this people and to this place.
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Federal Judge Blocks Warning Images on Cigarette Packs
In accordance with the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009, the FDA has designed several new graphic warning labels for cigaratte packs, such as the one shown here. Credit: FDA.
New Developments in Health Care Court Cases
Picture of the U.S. Supreme Court building. On Thursday, the nine justices will consider whether to hear several of the legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act.
Galilee Diary: Pluralism, provocation, and power
(Originally published in Ten Minutes of Torah and Galilee Diary)
Samuel said, "A woman's voice is sexually provocative, as it is written [Song of Songs 2:14] 'Let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet...'"
Samuel said, "A woman's voice is sexually provocative, as it is written [Song of Songs 2:14] 'Let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet...'"-Babylonian Talmud, Tractate B'rachot 24a
Yom Kippur in Vietnam
Yom Kippur, 1965, I was a Navy medical officer stationed aboard a destroyer off the coast of Vietnam.
The ship's captain had promised us an hour or two to hold a service Kol Nidre evening, but late in the afternoon the ship went to battle stations. An
Palestinian Application to UNESCO Threatens Organization's Funding
In the next two weeks, UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) will decide whether to accept the Palestinian Authority's latest approach for requesting recognition at the UN.
Hiddush Releases Annual Israel State and Religion Index
News coverage about Israel over the past few months has focused mostly on foreign policy: the Arab Spring, Iran's growing nuclear program, the crumbling diplomatic relationship between Israel and Turkey, and most recently, the possibility of a vote for
Galilee Diary: Bat Mitzvah
No thunder sounded. No lightening struck.
-Judith Kaplan Eisenstein, recalling her bat mitzvah, March 18, 1922 - the first bat mitzvah in North America at which a girl read from the Torah.
URGENT: Vote NO on Mississippi Personhood Amendment
The so-called "Personhood Amendment" to the Mississippi State Constitution (Proposition 26) that is up for a vote on November 8 is yet another attempt by anti-choice activists to essentially overturn the right to choice affirmed by the Supreme Court in Roe v.
Galilee Diary: Taxidermy
The house of Israel named it manna; it was like coriander seed, white, and tasted like wafers in honey. Moses said: 'This is what the LORD has commanded: Let one omer of it be kept throughout the ages; that they may see the bread that I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you out from the land of Egypt.' And Moses said to Aaron: 'Take a jar, and put one omer of manna in it, and place it before the LORD, to be kept throughout the ages.' As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Pact, to be kept. -Exodus 16:31-34
