The Bnei Menashe — one of the "lost tribes" — immigrate from India to Israel.

BBC reports: "The members of this tribe have never forgotten where they came from and we are excited to be able to help them come back,...

"A German rabbi is facing charges for performing a circumcision..."

"... less than two months after a Cologne court outraged Jews and Muslims by outlawing the procedure." "It has been many deca...

"It wasn’t a gloved-fist salute from the medal stand, but Jewish-American gymnast Aly Raisman made quite a statement yesterday..."

"... by winning a gold medal and invoking the memory of the Israeli athletes killed 40 years ago in Munich." Raisman finished firs...

"By the time Mitt Romney meets with Israel’s leaders on Sunday, the Republican Jewish Coalition will have kicked off an unprecedented political campaign..."

"... back in the U.S. to pick off Jewish American voters in traditional Democratic strongholds in three battleground states." The ...

German court says a boy's right to physical integrity trumps his parents' religious interest in having him circumcised.

Jewish and Muslim groups are reportedly outraged.

"Literally, it’s called ‘he who is inserted by his fellow man into his throat,’ about oral sex between two men."

"It doesn’t say it is permitted, but it doesn’t use the word ‘abomination’... and I was so happy, I called my friends in Baltimore. Thi...

40,000+ "ultra-Orthodox Jewish men, all dressed in black suits and white shirts" rally — at the Mets' stadium — about "the dangers of the Internet."

The NYT reports: For the attendees, many of whom said they came at the instructions of their rabbis, it was a chance to hear about a moral...

Romney having trouble raising money from Jewish donors who say they prefer "the Jewish candidate" — Michele Bachmann.

What's going on here? Republican fund raisers are exploiting Obama's weak support for Israel, but Mitt Romney is not doing so well ...

The Democratic Party's email attacking Jerome Corsi (author of the #1 selling anti-Obama book).

Yesterday, we were talking about the Jerome Corsi book on Barack Obama. Looking at a NYT article that seemed critical of the book without p...

So here's the new New Yorker cover.

Get it? Obama says: "I have no response to that." The campaign adds: The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to ...

"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses..."

"... the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish." So wrote Albert Ei...

"Tommy Thompson told Jewish activists Monday that making money is 'part of the Jewish tradition."

Oops! (Thanks to Eric Muller for pointing this one out to me.) Well, now, how bad is this one? It's not "nappy-headed hos" ba...

Sacha Baron Cohen, working as a tool.

Rolling Stone has an interview with Sacha Baron Cohen that's billed as his only out-of-character interview. (Via Metafilter .) He's...

"The Ten Commandments and Their Appropriations in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam."

Today is the second day of a conference on the Ten Commandments with that title, here at the University of Wisconsin. I'm chairing a 2-...

An Israeli anti-Semitic cartoon contest.

The Jerusalem Post reports: While riots over the cartoon depiction of Muhammad continue to rage worldwide and controversy surrounds an Irani...

Kazakhstan versus Borat.

Has there ever been a funnier idea for a lawsuit than Kazakhstan suing Sacha Baron Cohen for playing the character Borat? Responding in cha...