culture
Gay Marriage: Jews vs Mormons
An email from the usually-hilarious San Francisco-based comic Heather Gold (who, by the way, you can see live on Margaret ...
The Big Schlep is lame
Back in 2000, the Baha Men came out with their hit single, Who Let the Dogs Out. Man, that song ...
Happy 1940
MJL’s latest biography tells the story of Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the father of Modern Hebrew. So determined to bring Hebrew ...
And the Grammy for Best Yiddish cover goes to…
You might know Amy Winehouse as that very talented, but troubled singer from England. If you don’t, you are in ...
G-dcast: Torah Transmissions
There’s a new Torah site in town, G-dcast (remember the dash, or else you’ll be in some odd Christian missionary ...
Groucho vs God
One of our most recent articles is Saul Austerlitz’s fine take on the Marx Brothers, in which he traces their ...
The Concept of Jewball
Jewball. Urban Dictionary describes it as “a less intensive version of any of the following: baseball, basketball, football, etc.”By that ...
The Bailout: a modest proposal
In the aftermath of the third debate, our friend Sarah Lefton, the person behind all those Jews for Jeter t-shirts, ...
Yom Kippur does the mind and body good.
In my previous post on holiday rankings, I talked about how Yom Kippur, if nothing else, is a great time ...
A Fancy Chabadnik
In this week’s Forward, Dani Shapiro writes about an experience that most of us have experienced. I was pushing my ...