June 25, 2009

Now that Arab leaders and Western pundits have expressed their disapproval of Netanyahu’s policy speech of last Sunday, it is time for peace visionaries to point out the opportunities that the speech has opened to the international community, especially to President Obama.

In the same week that violent protests engulfed Iran following its hotly contested election, W Magazine ran a lengthy spread about the Iranian immigrant community in Los Angeles and the incredible name they have made for themselves.

Being pregnant for the first time I’m scared and I want my mommy. I just don’t want my mommy.

Can sarcasm, irony, surrealism, irreverence and Joycean wordplay with Talmudic references help bring us closer to Torah and to God? Can you turn the rabbinic tradition upside down and still honor it?\n