Mixed Multitudes
Yentl the Mensch
What is it about Barbra?Jewish Women’s Archive celebrates mega-star Barbra Streisand’s 1963 Broadway debut in This Week in History: Streisand has ...
The $Big$ Winner
This just in from the Jewish Book Council: New York, NY (March 21, 2007) –The Jewish Book Council, administrator of ...
Without an Eruv
This past Shabbat, my little boy was a prisoner of Jewish law. The DC Eruv was down, which meant that ...
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 ...
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, ...