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If you’ve been to a few different Torah services you’ve probably noticed that everyone who chants from the Torah has ...

The Sami Rohr Prize in Fiction is one of the biggest awards in the Jewish literary world, given by the ...

Confession time: Captain America has never been my favorite superhero. I’m a Marvel boy, tried and true, and even though ...

If you were trying to buy my love you should start with whiskey, and mix in some excellent novels and ...

People always say that Jersey Shore gives Italians, especially Italian-Americans, a bad name. I’ll buy that. The reason  I love ...

The blogs were going crazy this morning because the great Justin Bieber was on The Daily Show last night in ...

I’m catching up on the last season of one of my favorite shows, Friday Night Lights, and in an episode ...

Saul Austerlitz is the author of Another Fine Mess: A History of American Film Comedy. He will be blogging all ...

I have been having an ongoing debate with one of my guy friends about pornography, and why I think it’s ...

Yesterday I had a heated twitter debate with porn star Johnny Anglais about the merits of Holocaust movies. Really.How it ...