Jewish History
All Hitler All the Time
I have a confession to make: I kind of like Holocaust movies. I wouldn’t go so far as to have ...
From the Academy: Sephardic Studies
The flourishing of Jewish Studies in American universities has been one of the crucial stories in Jewish culture since World ...
Around the World With Hava Nagila
Aliza Hausman, over at Memoirs of a Jewminicana clued me in to this hilarious and awesome Indian version of Hava ...
Free Love and Communal Shabbat Dinners
When I lived in San Francisco, I didn’t have much going on in the way of hospitality — mainly because ...
Marketing Hitler
First there was the Hitler sperm being used to market a brand of condoms. And now, Hitler is being used ...
More Lubavitch Fetishism
Remember way back when I wrote about how the New York Times constantly glamorized/fetishized/stared at the world of Hasidic Brooklyn? ...
Renaissance in a Time of Ration
This article was written for the 2009 Why Be Jewish Gathering: Renaissance in a Time of Ration, a project of ...
Hasidic Poetry Slam
OK, as promised:This past Saturday night was the first Hasidic poetry slam in Crown Heights, at least in the estimations ...
A Brothel in a Shul?
Jezebel has a recent post about depictions of sex workers: Laura Agustin is concerned that all sex worker news is ...
Jews with Guns
It’s been a banner year for Jews with guns. From Gaza to the Golden Globes, it’s suddenly de rigeur to ...
Archiving Judaism for $0.00
If I haven’t made enough of a case for the Internet Archive, please let me ram it down your throat ...