culture

Yesterday I gave a bag of Hanukkah gelt to a non-Jewish friend of mine. It was leftover from the holiday, ...

The blog for the Washington DC JCC notes that the blue ladies of Avatar are reminiscent of the work of ...

When the Sacramento Kings drafted Omri Casspi from Israel back in June, I was pretty excited. Being a die-hard Kings ...

Try Orthodox Judaism! A recent article in New York magazine repeats a concept I’ve seen a number of times before. ...

Apropos of nothing:Oh, Jewish blogging world, you are losing your touch. Or maybe I’m just losing touch with you. Last ...

I tend to make my real New Years Resolutions in September for Rosh Hashanah, but this year I am making ...

It’s not news that a Hasidic Jew can rule the charts or that Yiddish-revivalist klezmer-punk bands are capable of rocking ...

Comic books in 2009 came one more step closer to being accepted by the literary public. Oh, there were the ...

Yes, this is a weird culture category; and no, this isn’t the “best of the Holocaust.” After last year’s ubiquity ...

The awesome Jewish poetry magazine The Blue Jew Yorker has its new issue online today. It probably seems like I’m ...