History
For Mom’s Sake
The fourth issue of Guilt & Pleasure is now out, and at first glance, it seems as good (and good-looking) ...
Yentl the Mensch
What is it about Barbra?Jewish Women’s Archive celebrates mega-star Barbra Streisand’s 1963 Broadway debut in This Week in History: Streisand has ...
What if Ariel Sharon Woke Up?
I just got emailed this dialogue that sums up the current state of Israeli politics:It is a rainy night, and ...
The Stateless Fuhrer
Bringing new meaning to the expression “A day late and a dollar short”: Hitler may be stripped of German citizenship, reports ...
The Segulah Trap
Feeling superstitious? Recently The Jewish Week took a look at segulot, Jewish good luck charms. Turns out that they’re not so Jewish after ...
Celebrating Girls
According to Jewish Women’s Archive’s This Week in Jewish History, on March 14, 1977 the New York Times published an ...
Name That War
Reuters reports: Israel is trying to put a name to the war it waged against Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrillas last year, ...
The Private Heschel
Susannnah Heschel has a wonderful article in the Jewish Week about her father, Abraham Joshua Heschel, in which she writes ...
Morbid Jews
The other night I went to an Emerging Jewish Writers panel/reading as part of the Steinhardt Jewish Heritage Festival. The ...
UJ Accepts Gay Rabbinical Students
As expected, the University of Judaism made the first practical move toward integrating the Conservative movement’s new responsum on homosexuality: ...