Mixed Multitudes

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You Are Not a Stranger

I’m not sure I recommend any volume of short stories more than Adam Haslett’s You Are Not a Stranger Here. ...

Food Glorious Food

Eating kosher in Rome, Italy, is not really a problem, with “five full restaurants, eight fast-food places of various kinds, ...

What’s wrong with this headline?

Today’s Jerusalem Post had an article that began as follows: Woman rabbi flies to US to preach aliya It’s not ...

Ozick Responds

In this week’s Jewish Week, Cynthia Ozick responds to the newspaper’s two scathing critiques (one by Gary Rosenblatt, the other ...

Crime & Violence in Israel

According to Betzalel Kahn, “Policemen in Jerusalem, under direct orders … have been seeding violence and wreaking destruction aimed at ...

Stuck in a Pickle

When I was younger, my mother warned me that if I ate too many pickles, I would turn into one. ...

The Bedouins of Israel

Rahat, the largest Bedouin settlement (40,000 residents, with another 10,000 nearby) has only one branch bank; no other bank will ...

Holy American Jewry, Batman!

It’s worth checking out Eli Valley‘s latest comic strip on Jewcy. This one has Batman and Robin saving the Jewish ...

July 4th, 1976 (Not 1776)

Tomorrow, Independence Day, is important for American Jews, but it is not only our freedom we should be celebrating.On July ...

Why? Why? Why?

Why has Hannah Levine died more than once–and is still alive at age 96? (Haaretz) Why has Hamas fired three ...

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