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On Monday, Ruth Franklin wrote about sharing a stage with Yann Martel. She is the author of A Thousand Darknesses: ...

I guess it was the recent New York Times profile of the hateful extremist Pamela Geller that set me off ...

Ruth Franklin is the author of A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction. She will be blogging all ...

We can all agree that Jews are sexy. But what makes the People of the Book so hot? Is it ...

Does the word “mitzvah” mean “good deed”? Is it a commandment? Can it be both?The London-based initiative Mitzvah Day answer ...

My life has been very Harry Potter oriented lately. With the seventh movie coming out this Friday, I thought it ...

At this year’s General Assembly of The Jewish Federations of North America, clear signs of the “tricky terrain” between the ...

I have a friend who works with the US government on Guam. One day he was talking to a woman ...

“Shemiah said: Shun authority.” Just what does this mean? That a man should not on his own place a crown ...

Earlier this week, Lavie Tidhar wrote about Jewish vampires and Hebrew punks and searching for Osama. His new novel, An Occupation ...

Why do we love to read about food?I’m in the middle of Kosher Nation , a history of kosher food ...