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Food Tourney 1st Round Results
The 1st Round is officially complete. Check in on Monday for the Elite Eight. Check the final results below. Click ...
King David: Coming to Primetime
Now you can do some of your Jewish learning in the evenings while you watch the tube. NBC will begin ...
The Tao of Jewish Music (and the Hebrew Alphabet)
The new issue of the Blue Jew Yorker is out and, as far as literary magazines go, this one couldn’t ...
Jewish Food Tourney: # 8 Brisket vs #9 Sufganiyot
We had our first upset yesterday. #10 Gefilte Fish beat #7 Hamentashen. I was so excited I had trouble falling ...
Chinese Takeout in the New Yorker
Last week the New Yorker published a longish piece (registration required) about Orthodox rabbis who criss-cross China certifying that various ...
Can’t Stop Talking About Basketball
Last night I traveled to the Izod Center to see the New Jersey Nets and the NBA Referees defeat my ...
Holocaust in the News
A potential convert finds himself “never able to connect emotionally with the Nazi genocide as so many of my fellow ...
The Messiah Is Coming
This morning on the way to work, an old Israeli guy in an undershirt and suspenders was standing outside, watching ...
Faster, Faster: Asara B’Tevet
Today is the tenth day of the Hebrew month of Tevet, and as such is a minor fast day. You ...
Yiddish revivalist ’70s pop
My newest Nextbook music column covers singer-songwriter Avi Fox-Rosen and the revival of the ’70s Yiddish pop singers The Barry ...
There’s No Business like Shoah Business
Someone recently asked me “Have you seen that new movie? You know, the one about the Holocaust?” You mean anything ...
Taqwacore wisdom
All weekend I’ve continued my obsession with Michael Muhammad Knight’s book The Taqwacores, which follows a bunch of young Muslim ...
Kaddish: It’s Different for a Girl
I haven’t written much about actually saying Kaddish in the past few months, partially because it has become so much ...
Jewish Food Tourney: #6 Apples & Honey vs #11 Matzah, #7 Hamentashen vs #10 Gefilte Fish
5 matches. No upsets. That’s just the way the cookie crumbles sometimes. I tried to push for Manischewitz Wine, but ...
New Year’s is More Important than Shabbat
Matthue just read the title of this post and passed out.New Year’s is always a weird time for me. Lately, ...