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Hanukkah Snuggies, Oy!
There’s not much we as Jews can really unite under. We tend to agree that the Holocaust was bad (and ...
If MJL Produced a Rock-Opera Short…
I was too young to ever see this commercial on TV, so I just discovered it via YouTube now. First ...
Not a Historical Record
Earlier this week, Ruth Franklin wrote about sharing a stage with Yann Martel and discussed whether anything new can be ...
Everything We Need to Know
On Monday, Ruth Franklin wrote about sharing a stage with Yann Martel. She is the author of A Thousand Darknesses: ...
Discovering Sepharad/Al-Andalus: A Short Reading List
I guess it was the recent New York Times profile of the hateful extremist Pamela Geller that set me off ...
Holes
Ruth Franklin is the author of A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction. She will be blogging all ...
The Generation Gap in American Jewry
At this year’s General Assembly of The Jewish Federations of North America, clear signs of the “tricky terrain” between the ...
My Rent Is High
Back in September, I moved to a new apartment. I’d been in my old place for two years, which was ...
Wise Fridays: Fraudulent Beggars
“The merit of charity is so great that I am happy to give to 100 beggars even if only one ...
The Shabbat Compromise
A while back, I gave a little plug to the National American Jewish History Museum that’s being built in Philadelphia. ...