culture

I’ve blogged about Eli Valley’s comics here before. Now the Jewish writer/communal professional has created web site dedicated solely to ...

Grace Paley, a wonderful writer and fierce social activist has died. She was 84. The MJL article about Paley can ...

I finally started reading Michael Chabon’s new novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, and so far, as virtually all the reviews ...

“The cats here are asleep- the poor, wretched, imprisoned cats. I feel like abusing them.”Just another classic quote from Tomorrow’s ...

In my latest column for the Jerusalem Post, I examine the work of Leonard Michaels, whose collected stories were recently ...

Christiane Amanpour is at it again. This non-journalist has traveled the world seeking out “God’s Warriors.” In this documentary, two ...

Like many 20-somethings, I have spent countless hours wasting away in front of my computer on Facebook. I mean, who ...

Barry Bonds became MLB’s new home run king last night, and while this could inspire blog posts about Jewish attitudes ...

Dalia Sofer’s novel The September of Shiraz received a rapturous review in yesterday’s New York Times Book Review. “The Septembers ...

-In its early decades, Jews were an important part of basketball. For example, half of the 1946-47 New York Knickerbockers ...