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Some favorites: on Birthright Israel; on megachurch sex abuse; on Jews for Jesus; on Hurricane Sandy & the failure of empathy.
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Boycott Divestment Sanctions and the Park Slope Food Coop
The Romance of Birthright Israel
How Birthright Israel Works its Magic, or, Against Fun [audio dispatch]
Ken Starr Redux: Lefty Icon Targeted Over Alleged Sexual Misconduct
Plus: Nieman Foundation behind-the-scenes Q&A
Mitt Romney: Safety Patrol Captain
We Were Merely Freshmen: Classmates Recall Mitt Romney’s Year at Stanford
An open letter to my parents, who still don’t believe I survived Hurricane Sandy
Living the American Dream in the West Bank
Homegrown Settlers: the Long White Flight
Today We Pray for Women for Whom Pregnancy is Not Good News…
Ken Starr Pulling “a Clinton” on a Jewish Studies Professor at Baylor U?
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s Cabaret for the Russian Emigres
Fuel for Truth: Taking the fight against Islamist terrorism to a New York Nightclub
New York Literati on Growing Up Evangelical
The Body of Christ, Now Germ-Free
How Flash Mobs and Lady Gaga are Energizing Protests for Palestine
The C Street Family’s Frequent Fliers Club
Junkets for Jesus (contributed reporting)
Consider Birthright Israel Occupied (cross-posted to Occupy Writers)
Co-oping BDS, part I: Progressive except Palestine (cross-posted to the New York Observer, AlterNet, and Mondoweiss)
Co-oping BDS, part II: Filling up the Israeli boycart
Israeli expo in NYC markets penthouses in settlements
At my seder, I remember a victim of the ‘Special’
Riding Together on Sex-Segregated Bus (contributed reporting)
Synagogue Dues Don’t Raise More Money Than Church Gifts (contributed reporting)
On the Pulpit, Rabbis Earn More Than Christian Clergy (contributed reporting)
Synagogues Rarely Mention God in Appeals, Unlike Churches (contributed reporting)
MTA Dining Car: D/M/N/R to 36th Street, Sunset Park
MTA Dining Car: Staten Island Ferry To Little Sri Lanka
A.D. Ira: Is There Life After This American Life?
Host: 2007-2008. Favorite episodes: the indignities of prom, the drama of therapy, and the cost of war
The Cheerios Index: Do the Poor Pay More for Food?
