culture

I just returned from a mini-vacation in Austin — my fifth trip to South By Southwest (SXSW), the music industry’s ...

Long gone are the days when standard Jewish attire was a streimel or a sheitl. Today’s Jewish hipster can’t afford ...

The other night I went to an Emerging Jewish Writers panel/reading as part of the Steinhardt Jewish Heritage Festival. The ...

In 2000, Harvard professor Ruth Wisse published The Modern Jewish Canon, a book that surveys two centuries of Jewish literature, ...

In the mood for an old-fashioned Yiddish Western?Click here to watch a short film called The Cowboy. Here’s some background on ...

Philip Roth has another award for his trophy case. The AP reports: Philip Roth has won yet another literary prize, ...

The latest installment of Adeena Sussman’s MJL food column “The Inspired Kitchenâ€? is now available. The newest recipe: Mandelbrot – the ...

Obviously, a lot has been written about evangelical support for Israel. Yet from all the reading and talking I’ve done ...

Some people consider Jonathan Lethem a Jewish writer because he’s Jewish (or half-Jewish, at least), but I’m not not going ...

For me, this week has yielded some very productive thinking about Israel and Zionism. In addition to the blogging and ...