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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 ...
Alan Dershowitz–Republican?
Say it ain’t so Alan! One of my favorite liberals (at least I always considered him a liberal), Alan Dershowitz, ...
The Rebbe and the Forty-Nine Hipsters
Last week, I told you how the Biala Rebbe was coming to our house. And I’ve gotten a bunch of ...
Haurowitz/Harris’ Goods and Sundries
On Monday, Allison Amend wrote about Jews in odd places. She is the author of the novel Stations West. She ...
Immigrant & Migrant Worker Issues in Israel
Longtime residents of some south Tel Aviv neighborhoods angrily protest the influx of foreign workers and asylum seekers. (Jerusalem Post)A ...
Why I Know My Binyanim
Last night I had a dream that I was back in high school, and was working on some homework form ...
Little Moscow on the Bay
The Radical Jewish Traveler goes to a San Francisco retreat for young Soviet Jewish immigrants.