culture
National Jewish Book Awards
Congratulations to our friends at the Jewish Publication Society who won four National Jewish Book Awards last week.Inventing Jewish Ritual ...
Culture in Israel
-A new documentary series looks at how well women writers in Israel can function. (Haaretz)-In Israel, the detective novel genre ...
Florida Panthers Go Kosher
In keeping with our recent story about sporting trends and Judaism, Ynet is reporting that kosher food is now available ...
Can we all at least pray together?
The ongoing Writers Guild of America strike depresses more and more each day. I support the writers, but I miss ...
Football Player Goes Frum
The theme of today’s blog is apparently Jews and Texas. This video follows the journey of Alan Veingrad, a former ...
Charlie Wilson’s Jews
Yesterday, I took in a viewing of Charlie Wilson’s War, the Aaron Sorkin-written, Tom Hanks-acted film about the congressman responsible ...
Ibi Lobove Youbou
This past weekend, I spent time with a dear friend from college. He’s always full of interesting, if not bizarre ...
Sell the Matzah, Keep the Hametz
Still looking for a holiday gift? Got $25 million just laying around? The Streit’s Matzo factory, prime real estate located ...
Politics & Literature
Should novels be political? I’m loving Daniel Handler’s answer in Jewcy’s Book Klatch: “Political” is like “experimental,” “realistic” or thousands ...
Malamud: The Forgotten
From Lee Siegel’s NYT review of the new Bernard Malamud biography by Philip Davis:Paradoxically, the farther he traveled from his ...