Lindsay Lohan is converting to Judaism in a bid to prove her devotion to Jewish girlfriend Samantha Ronson. Although raised a Catholic, the 22-year-old star announced she was planning to change her faith on her Facebook page.After jetting into London last week, Lindsay joined girlfriend Samantha at ...

Yes, we're talkin' 'bout John and Yoko's revolution, and Jews in Hare Krishna orange gowns and all kinds a' hella' deepy stuff... "For starters, even assuming the One-Worlders could ever bring us peace, which they most definitively cannot, it would only be at the price of a terrorist, totalitarian, ...

NPR affiliate KQED hosts Israeli historian Benny Morris to discuss the war in Gaza. This is a very illuminating, fast-moving discussion. Worth a listen: Morris, among many other books, authored "1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War," which is considered a standard of reference on the issue ...

The Wall Street Journal has an excellent feature look at a major imbroglio making tracks across the Holy City. And that's precisely the problem: At a time when conflict over Gaza is pouring yet more poison into the gulf separating Israelis from Palestinians, a repeatedly stalled and still unfinished...

More and more, Israel's military response to Hamas' in Gaza is making some pretty surprising bedfellows. Yaron London is one striking example. He's a thoughtful, veteran tv, radio and print commentator and self-described left-winger from way back. His two shekels worth of punditry on affairs of the ...

Author and colleague Judy Lash Balint, in a recent, and bitterly poignant post writes: "At the Jerusalem think tank where I work, one of the offices has been dark for almost two months. Noam (not his real name), the bright, articulate, British-born researcher in his mid-thirties, was called up for r...

Read this story, all of it. And then maybe understand what we're up against: Our neighbor lives in the house in which our grandfather used to live. He claims he bought the first part of the house from a Turki, and later the second part from a British bank, but that doesn’t make the sale any less i...

Sandy Cash is a stunningly talented singer and songwriter, and a veteran mainstay of Israel's English-speaking folk music scene (and a very active scene it is, too). Detroit-born and raised, she's also an old jamming friend, and it's wonderful to hear her clear and powerful voice after too many year...

Sderot billboard: "Who's next in the lottery?" sits above "Eli's steakiya," and across the street from the beleaguered town's City Hall - also the target of hundreds of Kassam rocket strikes. The red words between the Coke caps: "Lucky corner." Eh... maybe not so much. (Photo: Dave Bender) David Sui...

Shahar Golan has an edge, interesting blog, and great post about a cadre of Israeli tv hard news reporters, who apparently all went to the same leather good shop on their last visit to Turkey ("GREAT prices... ask for Hakim and tell him I sent you"): http://frgdr.com/blog/2008/12/29/tonight-evening-...