May his memory be a blessing–along with his insistence that we remember.

Studs Terkel.
William Grimes wonderful obit from the Times is here.
Bart Barnes and Patricia Sullivan from the Washington Post remember Studs here.
Chicago journalist Andrew Patner memorializes Studs Terkel here.

Elissa Gootman and Marc Santora have a really good and fair overview of the Rashid Khalidi issue in today’s Times.
Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, of blessed memory, was friends with Professor Khalidi and no doubt Arthur would have been deeply disturbed by this ridiculous demonization of him.
Yet another attempt at kicking up a storm where […]

Steve Lipman’s take on the Jews and the 2008 Election in this weekend’s edition of the Jewish Week.

Enjoy.

Brooklyn blogger and artist Matthue Roth has an interesting take on the parshas in his blog for young readers of Torah, called G-dcast.com.
Here’s his take on Noah:

Thanks to Jonathan Spear for this connection.

What I find so inspiring about these next few days leading up to the 2008 Presidential election is that no matter what happens next Tuesday, there is a tremendous amount of work ahead for all of us as citizens of this country.
Talking to a couple of parents this morning at tots drop-off, joking about the […]

I’ll begin by giving credit to my daughter’s second grade teacher (a Catholic daughter of Haitian immigrants) who last year lit a conceptual fire in the hearts of her students for the study of history. During Passover break, we traveled up to Boston to visit family and to explore Paul Revere’s route and other […]

So a new controversy is brewing down in Tampa as local reporting has come across some pretty strong connections between Aish HaTorah, a right-wing and religious brainwashing organization that has a history of selling false theories of religion like Bible Codes–and the controversial film Obsession: Radical Islam’s War with the West.
28 million copies sent […]

Growing up, my house was fairly political–certainly more than most of my friends. My father had biographies of FDR and Harry Truman up on the shelves; our set of American Heritage usually held my interest; I had my dad’s Adlai Stevenson shoe-with-a-hole-in-the-sole button; of course, there was the “Golda Meir was Grandma’s babysitter” thing; […]

Today’s Sukkah in the Street event at CBE was a great success, thanks to so many people.
Matt Soffer, our Revson Rabbinic Intern, who organized the event, along with Alix Fellman, my Assistant Extraordinaire, who shvitzed out so many details that made it all possible. Also Ben Resnick, our Bronfman Fellow for Neighborhood Jewish Life, […]

Who’s anti-American?
By the way, Michelle Bachmann (R, MN) is no relation.