Mixed Multitudes

The new issue of the Blue Jew Yorker is out and, as far as literary magazines go, this one couldn’t ...

We had our first upset yesterday. #10 Gefilte Fish beat #7 Hamentashen. I was so excited I had trouble falling ...

Last week the New Yorker published a longish piece (registration required) about Orthodox rabbis who criss-cross China certifying that various ...

Last night I traveled to the Izod Center to see the New Jersey Nets and the NBA Referees defeat my ...

A potential convert finds himself “never able to connect emotionally with the Nazi genocide as so many of my fellow ...

This morning on the way to work, an old Israeli guy in an undershirt and suspenders was standing outside, watching ...

Today is the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Tevet, and as such is a minor fast day. You ...

My newest Nextbook music column covers singer-songwriter Avi Fox-Rosen and the revival of the ’70s Yiddish pop singers The Barry ...

Someone recently asked me “Have you seen that new movie? You know, the one about the Holocaust?” You mean anything ...

All weekend I’ve continued my obsession with Michael Muhammad Knight’s book The Taqwacores, which follows a bunch of young Muslim ...