Jewish History

On New Year’s Eve, while you were busy not remembering your evening, two men dressed as Hasidic Jews robbed Dialite ...

It’s the 13th day of the war, and things are showing no signs of letting up or chilling out. And ...

Now you can do some of your Jewish learning in the evenings while you watch the tube. NBC will begin ...

Last week the New Yorker published a longish piece (registration required) about Orthodox rabbis who criss-cross China certifying that various ...

A potential convert finds himself “never able to connect emotionally with the Nazi genocide as so many of my fellow ...

Today is the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Tevet, and as such is a minor fast day. You ...

All weekend I’ve continued my obsession with Michael Muhammad Knight’s book The Taqwacores, which follows a bunch of young Muslim ...

I haven’t written much about actually saying Kaddish in the past few months, partially because it has become so much ...

Although I can’t actually remember whether he played “King Without a Crown,” that iconoclastic first single that a friend swore ...

It’s mostly PR, but it’s a kind of PR that the Israeli government hasn’t historically shown the capability to produce ...

Last night a friend and I went to go see Waltz With Bashir, the animated Israeli film about memories of ...

Herman Rosenblatt has become famous for his amazing story of how he met his wife. He claimed that while he ...