culture
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 ...
Jewish Identity
-A conference wrestles with the question of whether there is an identity of the Southern Jew, and if so, “is ...
Woody is Speechless
The Writers Guild strike is still going, and while after-work TV-watchers are plunged deeper into rerun land, at-work internet watchers ...
Here’s $100,000
The five candidates for the $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature have been announced. This year’s award is for ...