Mixed Multitudes

A recent issue of the Economist had a fascinating review of Edna Fernandes’ new book The Last Jews of Kerala: ...

I went home for Shabbat. Home meaning my parents’ house, which despite knowing I shouldn’t — I have an apartment ...

“The whole idea of Chefs for Peace is to show that here we are, working in one kitchen, Muslim, Christian ...

Okay, remember when we learned about the Jewish heritage of various comic-book characters yesterday? Now, we’re going to see it ...

Earlier this week, I blogged about Vivian Gornick’s recent assertion that “Jewish writing is over.” Gornick was suggesting that the ...

This was announced a few months ago, and now a 6-page preview is up. But I haven’t seen it making ...

Ali Waked reports that the Hamas raid on the Hilles clan compound marks the completion of the June 2007 revolution, ...

Yesterday, I convinced my beneficent editor to let me out early in order to go to a friend’s son’s upsheren ...

Music professor Francesco Lotoro talks about collecting more than 4,000 pieces composed in Nazi concentration camps.Beth Am Israel has collected ...

A “large number of lower-level Hamas activists have recently been released from Israeli jails after serving sentences of about five ...