By Mandy Katz Raise a glass tonight and every night through January 20. You don’t have to know Hebrew to
...In a haze of post-Obamania deflation this week, I turned for a political fix to Jerusalem and the hotly contested
...More than 200 professors of Jewish studies have joined to form the latest Jews-for-Obama group, reports The Jewish Daily Forward.
...A mere day after John McCain named his vice-presidential choice, I hatched a clever plan to dress as Sarah Palin
...Could this mom on a playground be Sarah Silverman’s angelic twin? Take it as a counterpoint to Silverman’s sassy, obnoxious
...Not every activist in and around Israel is focused on questions of religion or military hegemony. Some are concerned with
...“Should we not bring any snacks with pork?” Maybe Chinese tourists’ reputation for boorishness is unfounded, given that this considerate
...I confess to making a dumb and painful mistake in Israel last month: trying to harvest a sabra fruit with
...We’ve come a long way since 1985, when Israeli travelers I met in China had to hide their “real” passports
...Tunnels. The very word connotes ancient secrets, mystic rites and modern adventure. Israel is blessed with tunnels both natural (the
...When Sarah Palin ran for mayor in 1996, she apparently floated the possibility that her political opponent was an M.O.T.
...One of the cheesier keepsakes I’ve ever bought in Israel came, not surprisingly, from a touristy shop on Jerusalem’s Ben
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