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Welcome Home Mahmoud Ahmadinejad!

On Wednesday I heard John Ruskay, the executive vice president of the UJA speak at a seminar of 50 college ...

Radiohead supports Lipa Schmeltzer

I’ve been thinking about what are arguably the two biggest scandals in the music industry right now: illegal downloading and ...

Nuclear Warfare & Obama’s Feelings…

When Barack Obama met with members of the Democratic Caucus to speak about his tour of the Middle East, he ...

Jesus Saves, Moses Eats Deli.

What a waste of a pickle. Probably a full sour too, by the looks of it:

When Archie Met Sammy

JTA reporter Jacob Berkman, who was himself the subject of these pages a few weeks ago, today reported that Michael ...

Egyptian, Jewish, and Glam…and Exiled.

Here’s something you don’t get every day: Sylvain Sylvain, guitarist for the ’80s glam-punk band The New York Dolls, was ...

Search engine likes Messianic Jews

Today’s New York Times ran an article about Cuil a new search engine started by a bunch of former Google ...

Live Jewish Poetry Slam!

Ben Bresky, the most prolific (if not the most obsessive) Jewish and Israeli music blogger out there, also hosts a ...

Estelle Getty z”l

Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in ...

Female Rabbis, Male Stand-up Comedians

Today on his blog, Frum Satire starts a discussion about whether women could be Orthodox rabbis. It’s interesting, less in ...

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