Did you hear that Rabbi Weil convened a special OU meeting/retreat of some sorts in Los Angeles with six of the top rabbis in the country? What went on there? A source says: "It was a rabbinic training event for nearly – and newly – ordained rabbis. Jonathan Rosenblatt, the rabbi fr...

Danny from “Jew Eat Yet” asked me a question, and since it was a lengthy one, I will paraphrase it for you, “What the hell are YOU, a full-blooded American male, going to a blogging conference for WOMEN?” The answer is simple. I don’t think in terms of gender. We are al...

Anyone who buys into the FriendFinder Networks IPO won’t just be buying a piece of a debt-ridden, money-losing collection of porn sites and social networks. They’ll also be buying a piece of a car the company bought from one of its founders, and now values at $95,000. I still haven’...

Pardon me for bastardizing a quote from Alexander Pope's appropriately titled An Essay on Criticism to launch into today's diatribe about Imperial Structured Settlements, LLC. If one can see past the sultry photograph and platitudes of its "Farrah Fawcett locked" Senior VP Deborah Benaim one can se...

For once, Barack Obama left his iPod and stack of news clips at his seat and worked the front cabin of his campaign's chartered plane, laughing and reminiscing with the people who know him best....

Barack Obama sought to assure Jewish voters in Florida of his commitment to the security of Israel and implored them to disregard rumors about him....

The Right Wing talking heads have been whispering to American Jews that they can’t trust Obama. “Barack Obama doesn’t really support Israel,” they say. They have taken Barack Obama’s statement on speaking with our enemies and said that Obama would speak with Hamas which...

Senator Hillary Clinton has really been through a lot over the last 6 months. In November of 2007, she was the front runner by a long margin in the democratic race. She was able to look over the Republican field and know that she was smart enough and political enough to beat any of the Republicans i...

THE POEM OF A LIFE A Biography of Louis Zukofsky By Mark Scroggins...

Noted with alarm in this comment regarding the horrific privacy-invading adware that is Phorm: Their programmers are mostly Saint Petersburg-based, home to the Russian Business Network. Their servers are kept only in Saint Petersburg and China, so no ISP customer data is ever stored in the UK. Any p...