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Posted in Culture, History, Texts on November 6th, 2009 
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The Yankees win! The Yankees win! Oh, I’m sorry. That would be in the “Worst of the Week.” Quick rant: Instead of 50 game suspensions for baseball players caught using steroids, how about they make a rule that every time a player’s name is ever mentioned in the media again, whether it be in newspapers, […]
Posted in Culture on November 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Micol Ostow, author of So Punk Rock (And Other Ways to Disappoint Your Mother), is guest-blogging all week with MyJewishLearning and Jewish Book Council.
It occurs to me that after the somewhat irreverent tone of my last post, I may have given the impression that I’ve taken a very “out with the old, in with the […]
Posted in Culture on November 6th, 2009 No Comments »
A few weeks ago, Matthue Roth, associate editor at MJL, worked on the set of the new CBS drama The Good Wife as an extra. The episode, “Unorthodox,” is about the Hasidic Jewish community in Chicago. It airs on Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 10 EDT.
I’ve protested so frequently about the portrayal of Hasidic Jews in […]
Posted in Culture, Beliefs on November 5th, 2009 No Comments »
I’m a vegetarian, but I kiss meat-eating men pretty regularly. I’m not afraid of cooking a chicken (or a brisket, for that matter) and I won’t get grossed out or condemnatory if the conversation turns to the juiciest hamburgers in the world. I do what I do and beyond that I’m not imposing my food […]
Posted in Culture on November 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
I first saw Jeremy Fisher at a bar in Nashville. My friend Danny invited with me to go see his former camp counselor Jeremy. It was Nashville–there were dozens of places to see live music every night, and you never knew if you were in for something great, or thoroughly mediocre.
Jeremy was great. Better […]
Posted in Culture on November 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
Micol Ostow, author of So Punk Rock (And Other Ways to Disappoint Your Mother), is guest-blogging all week with MyJewishLearning and Jewish Book Council.
If you had told me when I first began my career as a writer of teen fiction that I would in time gravitate from the pop-sugar of early projects like 30 Guys […]
Posted in Culture on November 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
Despite the fact that Fool’s Gold is a band from Los Angeles –or maybe because of it–it’s notable that, when lead singer Luke Top starts singing, I start having flashes of my year living in the Jerusalem Shuk.
Top, an expatriate Israeli, moved to Los Angeles with his family when he was three years old. He […]
Posted in Culture on October 30th, 2009 No Comments »
There is no better introduction to Paul Rudnick’s book of essays, I Shudder, than its subtitle: And Other Reactions to Life, Death, and New Jersey. And there is nowhere that this description is more apt than the first essay: in which Rudnick tells his life story — a common story, really, of being a writer […]
Posted in Culture on October 28th, 2009 No Comments »
I really can’t decide what to think of the new film New York, I Love You — except that I should probably see it before i make any judgment. The trailer looks stunning. But the web clips of the segment “Kosher Vegetarian,” its segment about Hasidic Jews, make me wince — although it’s scripted by […]
Posted in Culture, Beliefs on October 27th, 2009 No Comments »
It’s been said over and over again. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart is the king of the Jewish joke. I feel like they can’t go two episodes without making one (Ironically enough, in an interview I did with Daily Show writer Rob Kutner a couple months back, he said that most of the Jew […]
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