Mixed Multitudes

Comic books in 2009 came one more step closer to being accepted by the literary public. Oh, there were the ...

Yes, this is a weird culture category; and no, this isn’t the “best of the Holocaust.” After last year’s ubiquity ...

The awesome Jewish poetry magazine The Blue Jew Yorker has its new issue online today. It probably seems like I’m ...

Rabbi Niles Goldstein is the author of The Challenge of the Soul: A Guide for the Spiritual Warrior, an approach ...

There are lots of characters on TV that happen to be Jewish. Like the emergence of African Americans into mainstream ...

Your son is at five your master, at ten your servant, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend ...

Merry December 24th!I hope you are enjoying the end days of 2009. 2010–it’s gonna be a good one. I just ...

All week, we’ll be spotlighting the year’s best new Jewish culture in books, music, television, and more. Next: The best ...

Yesterday, I ranted about eating Chinese food on Christmas. But I was wondering, how rampant is this practice in the ...

If you haven’t heard, tonight starts Christmas — which I think is the only non-Jewish holiday that starts at sunset, ...

I got a review copy of Jonathan Littell’s novel The Kindly Ones — a massive, 982-page paperweight of a novel ...

This is something that I’ve never really understood. Why is it a “thing” to eat Chinese on Christmas Eve? Yeah, ...