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What if Ariel Sharon Woke Up?

I just got emailed this dialogue that sums up the current state of Israeli politics:It is a rainy night, and ...

My Holocaust

I just received a review copy of Tova Reich’s forthcoming novel My Holocaust, and it looks intense, to say the ...

Jewish Music in Texas

I just returned from a mini-vacation in Austin — my fifth trip to South By Southwest (SXSW), the music industry’s ...

The Stateless Fuhrer

Bringing new meaning to the expression “A day late and a dollar short”: Hitler may be stripped of German citizenship, reports ...

The Segulah Trap

Feeling superstitious? Recently The Jewish Week took a look at segulot, Jewish good luck charms. Turns out that they’re not so Jewish after ...

What to Wear

Long gone are the days when standard Jewish attire was a streimel or a sheitl. Today’s Jewish hipster can’t afford ...

Celebrating Girls

According to Jewish Women’s Archive’s This Week in Jewish History, on March 14, 1977 the New York Times published an ...

Jewish Grammar: Nebbish

I’m not sure how I feel about the recent Jewcy article “Reclaiming the Nebbish,” in which Peter Hyman exhorts us ...

More Judaica

More on the new edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica: A series of topics have been expanded in the new encyclopedia: ...

Name That War

Reuters reports: Israel is trying to put a name to the war it waged against Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrillas last year, ...

Losing Their Religion

Thanks to FailedMessiah for pointing out a very interesting article in Biblical Archaeology Review in which Hershel Shanks interviews four ...

The Private Heschel

Susannnah Heschel has a wonderful article in the Jewish Week about her father, Abraham Joshua Heschel, in which she writes ...

Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)

Jean Baudrillard, the maddeningly-obscure, but prophetic, French philosopher died earlier this week at the age of 77.Baudrillard wasn’t Jewish. But ...

Morbid Jews

The other night I went to an Emerging Jewish Writers panel/reading as part of the Steinhardt Jewish Heritage Festival. The ...

Rashi Roundup

In the world of Jewish learning, understanding Rashi is one of the most basic—and the most difficult—skills you’ll have to ...