Mixed Multitudes
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, ...