Partner Blogs
On the Ground Peace Efforts
“The whole idea of Chefs for Peace is to show that here we are, working in one kitchen, Muslim, Christian ...
More Magneto Fun
Okay, remember when we learned about the Jewish heritage of various comic-book characters yesterday? Now, we’re going to see it ...
Literature is Over
Earlier this week, I blogged about Vivian Gornick’s recent assertion that “Jewish writing is over.” Gornick was suggesting that the ...
Magneto in the Holocaust
This was announced a few months ago, and now a 6-page preview is up. But I haven’t seen it making ...
Hamas in Gaza
Ali Waked reports that the Hamas raid on the Hilles clan compound marks the completion of the June 2007 revolution, ...
Making Ties, Cutting Hair
Yesterday, I convinced my beneficent editor to let me out early in order to go to a friend’s son’s upsheren ...
Music update
Music professor Francesco Lotoro talks about collecting more than 4,000 pieces composed in Nazi concentration camps.Beth Am Israel has collected ...
West Bank Update
A “large number of lower-level Hamas activists have recently been released from Israeli jails after serving sentences of about five ...
The First Jewish Food
Wikipedia bouncing is one of my favorite things to do. If we use “surfing” to describe crawling the web, just ...
I’ll take a non-real egg cream then.
Ever since Jennifer 8 Lee wrote about the reemergence of the egg cream earlier this month in The New York ...
The Syria Update
Jonathan Spyer explains why Syria is in no particular hurry to reach a deal with Israel. (Jerusalem Post)Zvi Bar’el makes ...
Jewish Writing is Over
Vivian Gornick’s forthcoming book The Men in My Life includes an essay called “Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and the End ...
Supplementary Education Suffering
This week’s homepage features a “Back to Hebrew School” special, with an article on how to choose the best school ...
Jews and Money
A substantial look at how the ailing economy means that donations to social action agencies are down as demands are ...
Kafkafkafkakfa
Our newest batch of articles includes an essay of mine on Franz Kafka, a Prague writer from the turn of ...