flickr.com/photos/vidiotThis guy didn't make the hot rabbi list, either.Just in time for Passover, Newsweek has revealed its list of the 50 hottest rabbis in America. (We don't see the connection between Passover and rabbinical hotness, either. Butanyway.)"Hotness" in this case refers to influence, alas, not personal appearance. The hottest rabbi in America right now is Rabbi David Saperstein, Director of the Religious Action Center and the Co-Chair of the Coalition to Preserve Religious Liberty
Joseph Franklin rockin the Hitler haircut.Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster today called for the Missouri Supreme Court to set an execution date for Joseph Franklin. Franklin was convicted in 1997 of murdering Gerald Gordon -- twenty years after he shot and killed him in the parking lot of a St. Louis area synagogue. Franklin also was convicted of shooting two other men in the same synagogue parking lot following a bar mitzvah in 1977."Joseph Franklin planned out and committed a heinous cri
flickr.com/photos/bestrated1King Louis IX: saint, crusader, good to Christians, really, really, really mean to Jews.​Tomorrow is Tisha b'Av, the ninth of the Jewish month of Av and the saddest day of the Jewish year. Most Jewish holidays memorialize the deliverance of the Chosen People from certain destruction at the hands of various pharaohs, kings, sultans, etc., with lots of celebration and eating.But as anyone who has a passing knowledge of post-Biblical Jewish history knows, there have be
Alissa Nelson​While training for my first 100-mile bike ride last spring, I developed a terrible habit. Although I stocked my saddlebag with the finest in sports goos and my back pocket with peanut butter-and-banana sandwiches, I couldn't help but plan the huge meal I would eat as soon as I got home. When you have twenty miles left in a bike ride, then a drive from the exurbs back to South City, this is probably not the most motivational way to look at your day.On the upside, I developed a spe
