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I’ve openly blogged about Holocaust humor and my acceptance of it on this site. So don’t get me wrong when ...

In like fifty years, when people are less sensitive about 9/11, I would like to be in a punk band ...

Yori Yanover is an intense personality. Hey, the guy has a Gawker category named after him, Yori Is the Next ...

The Cabalist’s Daughter is a bipolar sort of book. On one hand, it’s a crazy, unhinged vision of the Chabad-Lubavitch ...

There are a lot of news stories about anti-Semitism. I just searched the term on Google News, and five pages ...

This weeks marks the anniversary of an event I don’t really like to talk about. At some point in college ...

Sometime during all of the Agriprocessors brouhaha I heard that there had been a kosher meat boycott in 1902. I ...

This installment of From the Academy, comes from University of Southern California Associate Professor of History Paul Lerner. The piece ...

A few years ago I came across a book called In Memory’s Kitchen, edited by Cara De Silva. The book ...

Today is Yom HaShoah, a day to remember and honor the lives of all those who were killed in the ...