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Jews and the NAACP
I was reading something in The Economist yesterday that mentioned that NAACP was started by “a group of Jewish, white ...
Now What Am I Gonna Watch on Sunday?
It’s gotta be tough to be a tennis player. In team sports, you have a home base where you get ...
Inglorious Basterds
Jonas E. Salk posited that the cure for most diseases lay right in the disease itself — that, by administering ...
Did you take Shumlik’s dance class at summer camp too?
This video has been going around the internet over the past two weeks. For me, the scariest thing is not ...
Member of the Tribe
Recently, a friend’s father died suddenly, and I found out a few days later through a mass email that one ...
Eat An Extra Piece of Challah Tonight.
Don’t tell Jenny Craig, but you must eat extra challah tonight. Why is that? Because Challah is now the undisputed ...
Stop the Presses! Jewish Book and Manuscript Auction
The New York Times has a fascinating article today about the Valmadonna Trust Library, a collection of more than 13,000 ...
It Turns Out Mel Gibson is Misunderstood.
A friend of mine passed this along to me and I thought it was worth sharing. Everyone’s favorite conservative magazine, ...
Jewish Music Sale! $5 for Great Tunes
Craig N Co Music is having a huge sale, all CDs going for only $5. This means the full stock ...
Wedding Bell Blues
Last night, Stereo Sinai–that is, my friends Alan Jay Sufrin and Miriam Brosseau–got married. It was a ceremony worthy of ...
Happy Tu Bishvat! Three Easy Ways to Celebrate
Today is the birthday of the trees. Whoop-dee-do. If you didn’t get a chance to go to a seder last ...
People of The Book
Last week at JELO, a weekly interdenominational learning program at NYU’s Bronfman Center, Rabbi Yehuda Sarna, the University Chaplain entered ...
Jewish Food Tourney Final: #3 Challah vs #4 Latkes
I never thought this day would arrive. We are about to crown the ultimate Jewish food.After starting with 16 strong ...
Refuah Shelemah, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the only woman on the US Supreme Court, and one of two Jewish Justices (Breyer is the ...
More Secret Nazis
Okay, from the so-creepy-you-could-stay-awake-forever file — remember how last week, a Latin American town with an abnormally high birthrate of ...