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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Recently, I read — and very much enjoyed — Keith Gessen’s fiction debut All the Sad Young Literary Men. Tonight, ...

Four years ago in Athens, Gal Fridman (whose first name means wave) took home the first gold medal for Israel ...