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Merritt Skidmore-Hess

Jan 22, 2017, 4:10 AM

Discussing dress and modesty with women – part I

I have decided to temporarily use my blog to allow women that I know discuss their outlooks on dress and modesty. The reason I am doing so is that women much more so than men are judged for the...

Mar 15, 2016, 8:29 AM

Banning Kosher Meats Shows European Weakness

One of the most disappointing things that has come out of Europe in the past few years are the bans and attempts to ban Kosher and Halal meat. These bans on shechita, such as the 2014 ban in Denmark,...

Mar 3, 2016, 12:26 AM

The Invisible Non-White Jews: How Current Discourse on Israel Ignores Mizrahi Jews

Contemporary discourse on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is broken and it is broken because the discourse ignores non-Ashkenazi Jews. This is especially problematic as it seems so pervasive as to seem to be a deliberate choice to focus...

About Me

Merritt Skidmore-Hess is a graduate at of Georgia Southern University where he studied the history of Islam and the Middle East. Merritt also studied Judaic Studies with the Conservative Yeshiva in Jerusalem.