Mixed Multitudes
Marcus Freed: Being King Solomon
Marcus Freed is a man of many talents — actor, writer, poet, impresario. He is the inventor of Bibliyoga, a ...
Blame Canada? You Know They’re Not Even a Real Country Anyway.
You know how Canada has a reputation for being cold? I never really bought it. Living there, I just assumed ...
I Should Have Done More Research.
Like many others last night, I watched the Oscars. To tell you the truth, I don’t remember the last time ...
Jews and the NAACP
I was reading something in The Economist yesterday that mentioned that NAACP was started by “a group of Jewish, white ...
Now What Am I Gonna Watch on Sunday?
It’s gotta be tough to be a tennis player. In team sports, you have a home base where you get ...
Inglorious Basterds
Jonas E. Salk posited that the cure for most diseases lay right in the disease itself — that, by administering ...
Did you take Shumlik’s dance class at summer camp too?
This video has been going around the internet over the past two weeks. For me, the scariest thing is not ...
Member of the Tribe
Recently, a friend’s father died suddenly, and I found out a few days later through a mass email that one ...
Eat An Extra Piece of Challah Tonight.
Don’t tell Jenny Craig, but you must eat extra challah tonight. Why is that? Because Challah is now the undisputed ...
Stop the Presses! Jewish Book and Manuscript Auction
The New York Times has a fascinating article today about the Valmadonna Trust Library, a collection of more than 13,000 ...