culture

What is plov? And why is it an Uzbeki favorite? Find out the answers to all these questions and more ...

Sandi Dubowski, director of Trembling Before God, the remarkable documentary about gay Orthodox Jews, has just announced the premier of ...

Earlier this year, when Tillie Olsen passed away, I emailed Alice Mattison, author of the wonderful story collection In Case ...

I’ve blogged about Eli Valley’s comics here before. Now the Jewish writer/communal professional has created web site dedicated solely to ...

Grace Paley, a wonderful writer and fierce social activist has died. She was 84. The MJL article about Paley can ...

I finally started reading Michael Chabon’s new novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, and so far, as virtually all the reviews ...

“The cats here are asleep- the poor, wretched, imprisoned cats. I feel like abusing them.”Just another classic quote from Tomorrow’s ...

In my latest column for the Jerusalem Post, I examine the work of Leonard Michaels, whose collected stories were recently ...

Christiane Amanpour is at it again. This non-journalist has traveled the world seeking out “God’s Warriors.” In this documentary, two ...

Like many 20-somethings, I have spent countless hours wasting away in front of my computer on Facebook. I mean, who ...