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A few weeks ago, we were flattered to receive this message: Please stop airing the commercial ordering people to watch ...

Red strings are so five minutes ago. FAO Schwartz is now carrying Kabbalistic Beasties, stuffed animals based on amulets that ...

Every hero needs a villain. Superman has Lex Luthor, Harry Potter has Voldemort, Holmes has Moriarty. And in all the ...

In my latest column for the Jerusalem Post, I examine the work of a wonderful, though virtually forgotten, North American ...

We’ve managed, though not aimed, to omit from the blog the passing of writer Norman Mailer last Saturday. Rather than ...

So, a couple of months ago I’m visiting my parents for the High Holidays and I’m watching Letterman, and Dave ...

Around 2002 when the first Spider-Man movie came out, The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart joked that now that Spidey was ...

When I was in college, a popular Israel advocacy technique was to inform the campus of “cool facts” about Israel.“Did ...

While trying to find some cooking demonstrations online, I came across a gem in “Feed Me Bubbe.”Basically Avrom plays host ...

-When and why did the “v” become “b,” so that the Hebrew, “Ivrit,” became the English “Hebrew”? (Haaretz) -Why have ...