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Food Tourney 1st Round Results
The 1st Round is officially complete. Check in on Monday for the Elite Eight. Check the final results below. Click ...
The Tao of Jewish Music (and the Hebrew Alphabet)
The new issue of the Blue Jew Yorker is out and, as far as literary magazines go, this one couldn’t ...
Jewish Food Tourney: # 8 Brisket vs #9 Sufganiyot
We had our first upset yesterday. #10 Gefilte Fish beat #7 Hamentashen. I was so excited I had trouble falling ...
Can’t Stop Talking About Basketball
Last night I traveled to the Izod Center to see the New Jersey Nets and the NBA Referees defeat my ...
Yiddish revivalist ’70s pop
My newest Nextbook music column covers singer-songwriter Avi Fox-Rosen and the revival of the ’70s Yiddish pop singers The Barry ...
There’s No Business like Shoah Business
Someone recently asked me “Have you seen that new movie? You know, the one about the Holocaust?” You mean anything ...
Taqwacore wisdom
All weekend I’ve continued my obsession with Michael Muhammad Knight’s book The Taqwacores, which follows a bunch of young Muslim ...
Jewish Food Tourney: #6 Apples & Honey vs #11 Matzah, #7 Hamentashen vs #10 Gefilte Fish
5 matches. No upsets. That’s just the way the cookie crumbles sometimes. I tried to push for Manischewitz Wine, but ...
Jewish Food Tourney: #4 Latkes vs #13 Manischewitz Wine, #5 Cholent vs #12 Honey Cake
We got another doubleheader for you today. But first, thanks to everyone for voting. This tournament is getting higher ratings ...
Matisyahu: Return of the “King”
Although I can’t actually remember whether he played “King Without a Crown,” that iconoclastic first single that a friend swore ...