Jewish History
Polish Jewry Between the Wars
Jewish life in Poland between the wars was characterized by both cultural dynamism and conflict.
Now What Am I Gonna Watch on Sunday?
It’s gotta be tough to be a tennis player. In team sports, you have a home base where you get ...
Inglorious Basterds
Jonas E. Salk posited that the cure for most diseases lay right in the disease itself — that, by administering ...
Member of the Tribe
Recently, a friend’s father died suddenly, and I found out a few days later through a mass email that one ...
Stop the Presses! Jewish Book and Manuscript Auction
The New York Times has a fascinating article today about the Valmadonna Trust Library, a collection of more than 13,000 ...
Refuah Shelemah, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the only woman on the US Supreme Court, and one of two Jewish Justices (Breyer is the ...
More Secret Nazis
Okay, from the so-creepy-you-could-stay-awake-forever file — remember how last week, a Latin American town with an abnormally high birthrate of ...
Stuff White People Like Doesn’t Apply To Us
I’m not sure I’m actually ready to write about the links that I’m about to post. I think it’s an ...
Goodbye Money
There’s nothing I love more than depressing news on a Friday afternoon.Okay, maybe that’s not true. But if my weekend ...
Baba Sali: The Messiah Is Coming
The Internet has been around for a while — and, while the immediacy of the medium is unsurpassed in spreading ...
Jewish Music: How the Other Side Lives
Yes, Jewish music is experiencing a renaissance. Between JDub, Modular Moods, and independent artists like Sarah Aroeste and Michelle Citrin, ...