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Reading A.M. Klein

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

Norman Mailer

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

Why Can’t Jews Fight Crime Too?

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

That’s Irving Spiderman to You!

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

Rummikub

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

Feed Me Bubbe

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

The Hebrew Language

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

Vegging Out

It was an honest mistake on our part. We were too busy celebrating Jewish Social Action Month for most of ...

Even the ADL Must be Cringing

Few things make us more uncomfortable than potentially dubious claims of antisemitism. One thing that does: obviously dubious claims of ...

Perfected

ObamaGirl, aka Leah Kauffman, is back with her “wish” to be perfected just as Ann Coulter wants. It’s not nearly ...

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