Mixed Multitudes

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The First Jewish Food

Wikipedia bouncing is one of my favorite things to do. If we use “surfing” to describe crawling the web, just ...

I’ll take a non-real egg cream then.

Ever since Jennifer 8 Lee wrote about the reemergence of the egg cream earlier this month in The New York ...

The Syria Update

Jonathan Spyer explains why Syria is in no particular hurry to reach a deal with Israel. (Jerusalem Post)Zvi Bar’el makes ...

Jewish Writing is Over

Vivian Gornick’s forthcoming book The Men in My Life includes an essay called “Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and the End ...

Supplementary Education Suffering

This week’s homepage features a “Back to Hebrew School” special, with an article on how to choose the best school ...

Jews and Money

A substantial look at how the ailing economy means that donations to social action agencies are down as demands are ...

Kafkafkafkakfa

Our newest batch of articles includes an essay of mine on Franz Kafka, a Prague writer from the turn of ...

Literature Rodeo

From our friends at Jbooks. The Daily Show’s resident Brit John Oliver sounds off on apocalyptic literature. Eschatology and comedy: ...

A Hairy Situation

As if Agriprocessors/Rubashkin’s isn’t keeping PETA’s hands full enough, Italian animal activists, citing Pope Benedict’s well-known love of cats, are ...

Snoozing on the Shoulders of Giants

This post on Jewschool got me thinking. It’s a pretty common story in our days: a Jewish teenager’s grandfather died, ...

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