5/5/09

Kosher Food Fight in the New Jewish Food Movement

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Not every progressive movement is truly grass roots. New Voices reports on the, " Culture Clash in the New Jewish Food Movement . ...
5/4/09

Fish, Eagleton, Hitchins, Dawkins all gossip about God

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Stanley Fish in his "God Talk" post on his Times blog takes on Terry Eagleton who in turn takes on Christopher Hitchins and Richa...
5/3/09

Is there a ceremony for converting from republican to democrat?

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In the aftermath of the dramatic conversion of Senator Arlen Specter to the democratic party, the Talmudic Blogger has been doing some resea...
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Times: Iraqis Open Babylon and Resume Their Antisemitism

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Babylon Ruins Reopen in Iraq, to Controversy Colonial powers looted it, Saddam Hussein rebuilt it, US and Polish troops made it a military...
5/2/09

New Statistics Show How Religious Affiliation Supports Evolution

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Bear with me on this somewhat Talmudic line of thought. An op-ed in the Times claims children of the unaffiliated commonly become members...

Samuel Freedman in the Times Adores Michael Green's NBC Series "Kings"

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Not only does Samuel Freedman of the Times adore the NBC Series "Kings" - he also writes a learned column about it, which include...

Rothstein of the Times Firebombs the Jüdisches Museum Berlin

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The Times' EDWARD ROTHSTEIN, as I recall his work, ordinarily does not write reviews that rip apart their subject in a gut wrenching fas...
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4/30/09

Is US Supreme Court Justice David Souter Jewish?

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No, US Supreme Court Justice David Souter is not a Jew. He is an Episcopalian. According to published reports he plans now to retire from th...

Forward Sort of Reviews Princeton Professor Peter Schaefer's book about Jesus in the Talmud

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First, the essay "Do Jews Have a Jesus Problem?" in The Polymath column of the Forward by Jay Michaelson is not a book review. It...
4/29/09

The Talmud Does Not Sanction Torture (It's the Bible that Sanctions Torture)

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Not surprising - given the latest round of news revelations and the release of memoranda from the Bush administration - there are new posts ...
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