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Diane Ackerman’s book The Zookeeper’s Wife — which details how Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who ran the Warsaw Zoo, hid ...

in jail?David Brooks, notorious for spending more than $10 million on his daughter’s bat mitzvah two years ago, was arrested ...

I’d like to believe that the findings from this investigation won’t prove the allegation true. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem too ...

I just got an email about the launch of JLifestyle, a new Jewish magazine for the British set. We wish ...

It’s a little-known fact that many of the mainstays of Italian cuisine were in fact introduced by the Jewish community ...

I just finished Vanessa Och’s book Inventing Jewish Ritual , which not only investigates the development, acceptance, and theory of ...

-Isi Leibler bemoans the fact that in the Israeli Orthodox world, “the voices of moderation are silent. Zealotry has become ...

The New York Times takes a look at the editorial transition at Commentary: To some within the neoconservative movement, the ...

Today is Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Day, which coincides with his yartzeit on the 12th of Cheshvan.I’ve included some links for ...

I like blogging about deli, particularly the Second Avenue Deli. When I first moved to New York a few years ...

I recently had the opportunity to interview poet and educator Merle Feld, author of A Spiritual Life: Exploring the Heart ...

Last week the Cornerstone Church of San Antonio held its 26th annual “Night to Honor Israel.” With more than 6,000 ...

Sounds like a bad joke?It might as well have been one last Thursday at “A Debate on Jewish Values.” Hosted ...

Several blogs have picked up the Haaretz report about 5 ultra-Orthodox men who apparently assaulted a woman and an Israeli ...

Commentary has announced that New York Post columnist John Podhoretz will be its next editor. Podhoretz will be only the ...