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THAT RED STRING MOVIE: Shlomo Perelman, an Orthodox Jew and owner of Pinsker's Judaica Center, worries that the study of Kabbalah and t...

BUSH'S APPROVAL RATING Bloomberg reports President George W. Bush's job approval rating rose to its highest level in 13 months: 57...

Not on Slifkin, anyway.

Now that the JIBs are over, I can finally confirm what many of you suspect: DovBear is not a humor blog. Sure, sometimes I write funny pos...

VIRTUAL HISTORY Having just read Maus (again), I find myself dwelling on a counterfactual history scenario. The scenario first occurred to ...

Who won Sunday's big blue-fingered Iraqi election? Well, per TNR , the winning slates range from moderate theocrats to secular strong...

It's cute when the old folks aren't up on the latest slang. Here is Thomas Friedman in today's Times: "Every colleg...

Yipes! ... And can we please start the unfounded rumor that this was why MoChassid was summoned for a scary meeting last Friday?

Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger Retires

When people ask me, "Dov, where can I find a good English-language, Jewish website featuring unflattering photos of Kim Jong Il juxtapo...

I will allow you to guess the sort of books that were presented on the table beneath the very large sign reading “History” Choose one A – W...

"Scottie McClellan Explains It All " Money quote: Hmm, if JimJeff wasn't making his living from being the Washington Bureau Ch...

They have not 100 percent gotten over the whole "neither Jewish nor funny" thing over there Pay special attention to clever Pr...

Damn foreign outsourcing... this has actually happened to me. Sort of.

Re: This , this , this , and the comments there Dear Jeff, Why are you still saying that I "broadsided [you] without provocation?...

- Developing - Not clear on the details here... does Zman Biur (president of the we-don't-like Dovbear-but-we-read-him-anyway-club...

Two more very big bloggers think that sending me hundreds of hits is going to teach me to respect Protein Wisdom*? Bright bunch.** D...