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Ever since Jennifer 8 Lee wrote about the reemergence of the egg cream earlier this month in The New York ...

Jonathan Spyer explains why Syria is in no particular hurry to reach a deal with Israel. (Jerusalem Post)Zvi Bar’el makes ...

Vivian Gornick’s forthcoming book The Men in My Life includes an essay called “Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and the End ...

This week’s homepage features a “Back to Hebrew School” special, with an article on how to choose the best school ...

A substantial look at how the ailing economy means that donations to social action agencies are down as demands are ...

Our newest batch of articles includes an essay of mine on Franz Kafka, a Prague writer from the turn of ...

From our friends at Jbooks. The Daily Show’s resident Brit John Oliver sounds off on apocalyptic literature. Eschatology and comedy: ...

As if Agriprocessors/Rubashkin’s isn’t keeping PETA’s hands full enough, Italian animal activists, citing Pope Benedict’s well-known love of cats, are ...

This post on Jewschool got me thinking. It’s a pretty common story in our days: a Jewish teenager’s grandfather died, ...

As you might have guessed, I’m a bit obsessed with the Olympics. They provide for hours of fun and excitement ...

Ari Alexander guest blogged from the World Conference on Dialogue in Madrid, organized by the Muslim World League under the ...

Score one (more) for budding innovative technologies in Israel: at Beit Ha’iver, the Center of the Blind, in Herzliya, a ...

A New Jersey Conservative synagogue finds that instrumental music draws crowds for a Friday night service. (NJ Jewish News)Five synagogues ...

My Hasidic father-in-law, after being initiated as the president of his local branch of United Israel Appeal (an organization that, ...

The Olympics are supposed to be a unifying event, bringing together the world for 17 days of friendly competition. Yet ...