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The Case for (a Fictional) God
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, is guest-blogging all week ...
Miep Gies Shows Us the Secret Annexe
Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank during the Holocaust, has just died at the age of 100. The New ...
Fast for Rain
According to IsraelNN, the Chief Sephardic rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Shlomo Amar has called for a fast and prayer for ...
Wise Fridays: What Does God Want?
This is what the Holy One said to Israel: My children, what do I seek from you? I seek no ...
Jews in the California Gold Rush
Jewish adventurers were crucial in establishing American civilization on the West Coast.
Israeli Politics Roundup
In an extensive interview, Shaul Mofaz attacks Tzipi Livni for lack of leadership in Kadima, and with her “inability to ...
The Kominas Live: The Only Jew in the Room
Last night I went to my first taqwacore concert. Taqwacore is Muslim punk rock, and what that means to you ...
Ski-Jumping Hitlers
Sometimes the Canadian in me pops up. I try to hide it as much as I can, and I’ve even ...
Interview: Eitan & Omri Casspi
When the Sacramento Kings drafted Omri Casspi from Israel back in June, I was pretty excited. Being a die-hard Kings ...
Kindly Ones Keep Us Company
I got a review copy of Jonathan Littell’s novel The Kindly Ones — a massive, 982-page paperweight of a novel ...