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Joan Nathan: My Stomach Salutes You
If you peruse the recipe index on our site, you’ll find a number of articles by Joan Nathan. Over the ...
“How Jews Look” and the Identity Police
Last week, we released How Jews Eat, the second in our new “How Jews Do Stuff” video series — which ...
Lost and the Book of Judges
SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t seen last night’s episode of Lost, The Variable, you should go watch it now. If ...
Big News: Shul Is Boring
I love when major news outlets come out with stories about something as if it’s a new! novel! idea! when ...
Hatikvah: Blue Fringe’s Dov Rosenblatt Talks about Israel
This is a guest post from Dov Rosenblatt, lead singer and guitarist of the band Blue Fringe. He and the ...
Yori Yanover: An Interview
Yori Yanover is an intense personality. Hey, the guy has a Gawker category named after him, Yori Is the Next ...
Every Nebbishy Boy’s Dream
Israel is a Jewish state. There are all types of Jews there. In explaining the nature of the state, someone ...
Jew on the Train
Judaism is one of those cultural identities that, for most people, is able to be turned on or off. Matt ...
The Cabalist’s Daughter
The Cabalist’s Daughter is a bipolar sort of book. On one hand, it’s a crazy, unhinged vision of the Chabad-Lubavitch ...
Nice Jewish Girls Get Hit
This weeks marks the anniversary of an event I don’t really like to talk about. At some point in college ...