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Chaim Potok
His Judaism, and his dissatisfaction with it, formed the cornerstone of his stories.
All Hitler All the Time
I have a confession to make: I kind of like Holocaust movies. I wouldn’t go so far as to have ...
From the Academy: Sephardic Studies
The flourishing of Jewish Studies in American universities has been one of the crucial stories in Jewish culture since World ...
Sabra Returns to Marvel Comics
If you don’t know about my obsession with Sabra, the Jewish superhero, then just Google around — I’m kind of ...
Classical Music in the West Bank
You know those movies, books, and news stories about how classical music turned the life of some hard-knock kids around, ...
Israel: Settlements, Conflict, and Iran
Netanyahu says Israel will not stop construction in Jerusalem or halt building to accommodate “natural growth†in the settlements. He ...
Your Cousin Moishe’s Take on Your Intermarriage
Today Jewcy features a scary letter that a guy named Noah (Noah Feldman, is that you?) got after getting engaged ...
Israel, Settlements, and the Diaspora
Does pressure on the Israeli government from diaspora Jews have any chance of actually making a difference? (Ha’aretz)Yossi Verter sees ...
A Vast Conspiracy
A couple weeks back, I jokingly shared a link to a site teaching you how to properly fight off a ...
Unwise Thursdays
Moment Magazine has a feature each month where they ask rabbis of various movements and constituencies to respond to a ...
Me and the Maharal (Down by the Schoolyard)
Just got my copy of Curt Leviant’s translation of The Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague, ...