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 (Crossposted to Jewschool .) Thanks to all who participated in Knesset November Madness 2022 !  The final election results are in, so we’re ready to announce the November Madness results....

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2022/11/november-madness-2022-results.html

 (Crossposted to Jewschool .) Now that the chagim are over, we’re turning our attention to the upcoming Israeli election (among other upcoming elections).  For a while we were doing this ev...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2022/10/knesset-november-madness-2022.html

 (Crossposted to Jewschool .) Thank you to everyone who participated in Knesset March Madness 2021 !  Now that the election results are official, we’re also ready to announce the official ...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2021/03/knesset-march-madness-2021-results.html

 (Crossposted to Jewschool .) It has been an entire year since the last Israeli election!  This is the longest such gap since three elections ago!  But all things must come to an end, and so...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2021/03/knesset-march-madness-2021.html

(Crossposted to Jewschool .) Well, NCAA March Madness may be proceeding this year without fans in the stands , but Knesset March Madness 2020 is still proceeding normally! The election resu...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2020/03/knesset-march-madness-results.html

(Crossposted to Jewschool .) Do we really have to do this again?  I guess we do, don’t we.   We just had September Madness a few months ago, and April Madness before that, but now Israe...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2020/02/knesset-march-madness-2020-sigh.html

Thanks to everyone who filled out the survey about 1-day and 2-day yom tov!  We received 133 responses, but we should emphasize that we did not employ any sort of scientific sampling method...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2019/12/yom-tov-survey-results.html

The holidays are over once again, which means that the unusual calendar pattern of the past decade is also over.  For the entire decade from 2010 to 2019, Rosh Hashanah started on only Monday a...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2019/11/at-decades-end.html

(Crossposted to Jewschool .) After a little bit of last-minute shifting, the results of the Knesset election are final, and that means it’s time to announce the results of September Madness...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2019/09/september-madness-results.html

(Crossposted to Jewschool ) September Madness 2019 is still open!  You can enter this prediction contest up until 11:59 pm Israel Summer Time (4:59 pm EDT) on Monday, September 16, 2019 (the n...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2019/09/september-madness-2019-guide-to-parties.html

I know, it seems like we just had April Madness !  But thanks to an unprecedented second Knesset election in the same year, we're back again a few months later for our sixth Knesset prediction ...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2019/08/knesset-september-madness-2019.html

Thanks to all who participated in April Madness 2019 ! Here are the final election results: LIKUD 35 BLUE & WHITE 35 SHAS 8 UNITED TORAH JUDAISM 8 HADASH-TA'AL 6 LABOR 6 YISRAEL BEITEINU 5 UNI...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2019/04/april-madness-results.html

It's not too late to enter April Madness 2019 !  You have until 11:59 pm Israel Summer Time on Monday April 8, 2019 (the night before the election) to make your predictions.  Once again , here ...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2019/04/april-madness-2019-guide-to-parties.html

I know there haven't been any posts on this blog in years, but we're bringing it out of cold storage for... APRIL MADNESS 2019!!!  The Israeli election is coming up, and in the tradition of Marc...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2019/03/knesset-april-madness-2019.html

(Crossposted to Jewschool .) Ten years ago this week, I posted “Taxonomy of Jewish pluralism” to Mah Rabu, a new blog that was just a couple months old. It was a golden age of blogging in...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2015/07/tbt-taxonomy-of-jewish-pluralism-at-10.html

(Crossposted to Jewschool .) There's a week left until the Israeli election, which means there's less than a week to enter March Madness 2015 !  To aid in the process of making your picks, he...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2015/03/march-madness-2015-guide-to-parties.html

(Crossposted to Jewschool .) The Israeli election is around the corner, which means that it’s time for… MARCH MADNESS 2015!  From the people who brought you March Madness 2006 , February M...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2015/03/knesset-march-madness-2015.html

(Crossposted to Jewschool .) Now that we're into Cheshvan, it's time for a mid-decade update! Four years ago, we noted that for the entire decade of the 2010s, there are only two patterns o...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2014/10/mid-decade-update.html

Lonely (and whiny) internal monologue upon the latest of many recent widely discussed articles on streams of American Judaism: "It's great that this discussion is happening, but why is no one wr...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2014/04/internal-monologue.html

A late-breaking update has been added to this old post on the history of the term "independent minyan".  Scroll down to the bottom.

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2013/10/independent-minyanim-in-1985.html

(Crossposted to Jewschool .) The Pew Research survey, “A Portrait of Jewish Americans,” released yesterday, has received a lot of attention in both the Jewish and the mainstream media. I ...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2013/10/notes-on-pew-survey.html

(Crossposted to Jewschool .) I hope everyone had a great New Year of the Trees! Several days ago, the Jewish environmental organization H’zon put up (and sent to their email list) a blog pos...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2013/01/response-to-hzon.html

(Crossposted to Jewschool .) The final Knesset election results are in! (This guide may help if you can’t remember which party is which.) Likud Beiteinu 31 Yesh Atid 19 Labor 15 Habayit Ha...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2013/01/january-madness-results.html

(Crossposted to Jewschool .) As many of you know by now, November 28, 2013, will be both (American) Thanksgiving and the 1st day of Chanukah! The possibilities are endless: deep-fried turkey; ...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2013/01/thanksgivukkah-faq.html

(Crossposted to Jewschool .) Have you entered the January Madness pool yet? Once again , here is a guide to the 34 parties running in the election, with links to their websites if we can fin...

http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2013/01/january-madness-guide-to-parties.html