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The Week That Was

As the week comes to a close, it is time to look back at the best of times. There were ...

Is Separate Seating Offensive?

An English MP named Jim Fitzpatrick was invited to a constituent’s wedding last night, and he and his wife attended, ...

Eprhyme’s “Punklezmerap” Video

From the people who brought you Y-Love, Eprhyme is Shemspeed Records’ newest catch — and, if JDub is the Haskalah ...

Love Songs, Pop Songs, and Musical Holocaust Memoirs

There are generally two kinds of Jewish kids who are obsessed with music — the Broadway musical type, and the ...

Big Matzah Ballin’

This is why New York scares me: We had the world’s largest matzah ball in our midst. It contained 1,000 ...

Still Jewish with Keren R. McGinity, Ph.D.

What happens when Jewish women intermarry? Do they lose their ties to Judaism, or do they develop stronger ties to ...

Yiddishe Alef-Bais (in Hebrew)

I have no idea what’s going on here. But a secular Israeli in a Spider-Man outfit and a shtreimel — ...

Jewish Rhyme Bible

Our Bad Poetry Contest is getting close to the end, with 3 potential winners out of over 100 entries so ...

Roseanne Barr…Oy

You know that famous Seinfeld where Jerry thinks his dentist, Dr. Watley, converted to Judaism for the jokes? A priest ...

From the Academy: Musicology

Judah Cohen serves as The Lou and Sybil Mervis Professor of Jewish Culture and as an Assistant Professor of Jewish ...

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