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Israeli Eurovision Retrospective
There’s a long and hilarious article in this week’s New Yorker about the Eurovision contest, and it includes a short ...
Summer Reading Recommendation: These Mountains
It’s hot outside. Too hot to focus on anything. I usually love to read a big fat novel, but in ...
Israel’s Other White Meat
For any kosher law abiding Jew, visiting Israel is an opportunity to eat some of the things that are normally ...
A New Anne Frank Controversy
There’s a new novel out that imagines the life inside the Annex where Anne Frank and her family lived, told ...
How Do You Say Goal in Hebrew?
If you’re like half the population of the world, you’re pretty interested in that whole World Cup situation that’s going ...
Wise Fridays: Families of Jerusalem
“Beautiful are the families of Jerusalem: A mother from a Russian curse and a father from a Spanish curse, A ...
Searching for Bobby Fischer’s Money
As a kid, I remember having a bunch of books about Jews in sports. The books would tell stories about ...
Oh We Will Know They’re Jewish
In Amsterdam, the cops are going to start going undercover as Jews in order to sniff out anti-Semites. According to ...
Floatilla Consensus
Hey, it turns out there’s one thing we can all agree on when it comes to the Floatilla disaster: the ...
A Community of Immigrants
This week, Allison Amend wrote about old Western general stores and Jews in odd places. She is the author of ...
Get Your Peanuts Out of My Chickpeas!
I love it when hummus is in the news. Partially this is because I love hummus. I had hummus for ...