Well, Ron Jeremy certainly, and on Beliefnet you can find a new interview in which the porn star discusses his Jewish background and his thoughts about Judaism and sexuality.
We’re all Jewish. [My family] comes from Russia and Poland, as most American Jews do. Out of all of us, only my grandmother was religious. My brother […]

Purim’s coming and it’s time to have some fun!
Here are some terrific websites with lots of activities for kids: 

Toratots offers information about Purim celebrations around the world as well greeting cards, a Purim story (With a virtual grogger that goes off everytime you put your mouse over the word “Haman”!), coloring pages, games, a Purim shpiel […]

In the mood for an old-fashioned Yiddish Western?
Click here to watch a short film called The Cowboy. 
Here’s some background on this unique Western from the National Center for Jewish Film:
Yes, it’s just your typical all-Yiddish shoot-’em-up: a small boy falls out of a covered wagon on its way West and shows up years later as […]

Philip Roth has another award for his trophy case.
The AP reports:
Philip Roth has won yet another literary prize, this time the PEN/Faulkner award for “Everyman,” his short, bleak novel about illness and mortality…
Roth, who will receive $15,000, is the first three-time winner of the PEN/Faulkner, having received it in 1994 for “Operation Shylock” and in […]

For those of you in the New York area looking for something to do tomorrow night (Feb 27), I’ll be moderating a discussion at the Skirball Center’s Ideas Cafe. The topic: Can a Jewish State Be Truly Democratic?
If you’re in the mood for some passionate debate, come on down. The program costs $10, includes wine […]

Today’s New York Times looks at the latest battle over the Middle East on college campuses: a documentary film, Obsesssion: Radical Islam’s War Against the West, which has been screened (and cancelled) at various New York area Hillels.

Hirhurim’s Gil Student has just published a review in the Jewish Press of Imrei Baruch (The Sayings of Baruch), a series of essays concerned with the ethical life that draws on biblical, rabbinic, and Hasidic texts.
The three volume set, by Yeshiva University’s Rabbi Baruch Simon, are in Hebrew and probably not on most of your […]

A few weeks ago, I blogged about Walter Benjamin, the great German Jewish intellectual, whose writings have become canonical in contemporary cultural studies.
Benjamin’s writings are difficult and obscure, but because they’re theoretically so well-suited for analyzing pop culture, they often come up in more popular — and fun — contexts than, say, Heidegger.
Case in point: […]

The latest installment of Adeena Sussman’s MJL food column “The Inspired Kitchen” is now available. The newest recipe: Mandelbrot - the Jewish biscotti. Find out out how this recipe made it from Italy to your Bubbe’s kitchen.

If you haven’t yet peeked at David Plotz’s Slate feature Blogging the Bible, yesterday’s edition is a good place to start, as he covers three books in one post. Plus, I’m guessing I’m not the only one whose knowledge of Joel, Amos, and Obadiah is a bit lacking.
A taste:
Joel is the prophet of green, the […]