I would take issue with the absolute statement that the Jewish community has been entirely silent (for example the Heksher Tzedek movement). But certainly it has been slow and not nearly enough. The Rubashkin affair of course just verified what ...

And please tell me how someone can be "overeducated"? What bad thing happens when one learns too much? Decades and decades of student loan payments?

A private organization withholding its funds for a display it disagrees with is NOT censorship by any sense of the definition of the word. One can ultimately disagree with Spertus' decision to close down the exhibit, but Federation certainly was ...

You are correct in saying that it isn't any different than the view of some Jews. That doesn't make Hagee's view anymore valid or less offensive. All it means is that there are some rabbis who have views just as offensive ...

as evidenced by their spiced pumpkin donut. In other news, I am planning a protest of Mario Batali's wearing of a brown shirt. There is, of course, also the irony that kaffiyeh-like headgarb has been worn by any ...

Aww come on Craig...I'm mildly sane. Though some have doubted my sanity upon leaving The Grande Apple for More Midwestern Ventures. Oh, and in the time that this post has been up, Benny Morris has already changed his opinion ...