Frum Satire has a guest post by Frum Punk that points out the hypocrisy of many religious people who oppose health-care reform in the United States. Even if you are not Jewish, I am sure that Christians and other religious people can see his points as well. The clarifications in brackets are mine. “Frum” is […]
Entries Tagged as 'Liberal Pundits'
Jesus Was a Socialist
March 25th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Bible, Christianity, Culture, Economics, Health, Humor, Israel, Judaism, Law, Liberal Pundits, Politics
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Life in Israel
March 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Culture, Israel, Judaism, Liberal Pundits, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
People always ask me what it’s like in Israel. Since I don’t usually have hours to respond with a nuanced, lengthy discussion, I normally boil it down to one sentence: “This country is the perfect combination of heaven and hell.” Bradley Burston, a local columnist, puts it another way: “Living in Israel is both vastly more […]
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All-Star Rodeo Challenge
January 18th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Business, Civil Liberties, Culture, Food, Judaism, Liberal Pundits, Marketing, Politics, Religion, Sports
Penelope Trunk had a horrible time at the All-Star Rodeo Challenge in Madison, Wisconsin: I really hated it before there were any animals. Before there were animals there was the flag, rising above the dirt ring, and the announcer saying everyone should sing the Star Spangled Banner to honor “the flag that protects our troops, […]
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Decade-Roundup from Israel
January 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Hizbollah, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Journalism, Judaism, Law, Lebanon, Liberal Pundits, Media, Palestine, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War, War on Terror
JERUSALEM — Stefanie Gardner looks at how media has changed in the United States and Israel (but leaves out the success of Fox News and Israel’s first, free daily, “Israel Today”). Liat Collins says Israel went through a “boom-and-bust” decade. Caroline Glick calls is a “low-and-dishonest” decade. Bradley Burston identifies Israel’s “ten” worst errors of […]
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Christian Persecution
December 24th, 2009 · 10 Comments · Christianity, Civil Liberties, Culture, Health, Israel, Judaism, Law, Liberal Pundits, Politics, Religion, The Middle East
JERUSALEM — Evidently, ultra-Orthodox Jews in the city have been spitting on Christians for years. This is disgusting — in every sense of the word. Continue reading
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Chanukah 2009/5770
December 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Anti-Semitism, Bible, Boston, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Education, Israel, Judaism, Law, Liberal Pundits, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, War
JERUSALEM — The Jewish holiday of Chanukah begins at sundown today. Here are two past writings of mine on the topic: Is Chanukah a Right-Wing Holiday? and Chanukah and Christopher Hitchens. I also wanted to post another original writing. This is a short paper I wrote while I was a master’s student in Jewish Studies […]
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American Paradoxes
December 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Culture, Economics, Finance, Iraq, Liberal Pundits, Politics
When you take a step back and look at the big picture, it seems that the United States is frequently a land of paradoxes. Here are two of them. “The country faces a fundamental disconnect between the services the people expect the government to provide, particularly in the form of benefits for older Americans, and the […]
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Gender Discrimination
November 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Civil Liberties, Culture, Feminism, Israel, Judaism, Liberal Pundits, Politics, Religion, The Middle East, Torah
Israeli police and Western Wall officials reportedly expelled and briefly arrested a woman who was wearing a tallit and tried to read from a Torah scroll. Orthodox blogger Dov Bear states, and I agree, that the woman was doing nothing wrong under Jewish law. As he writes: The kotel is a place of prayer. The role […]
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