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

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

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

Get out your party hats. Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer has officially declared October 28 through November 3 “Hava Nagila ...

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

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

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 ...

Apparently Paul Marx decided to answer my burning question from yesterday, “What is a black bar mitzvah?” With an op-ed ...

The truth is out. J.K. Rowling finally admits to the not-so-veiled Christian imagery that pervades the Harry Potter series. The ...