Jewish "Potty" Politics?
By Sarah Breger
This is why I love academics: They take the ordinary, banal, and regular and infuse it with such overwhelming importance you are likely...
Religious Accommodation in the Workplace
By Sarah Breger
For religiously observant employees, the decision to "rock the boat" in the workplace is a tricky one. If you keep Hallal should you...
This Week's Links
By Sarah Breger
While the upcoming production of "Shalom Sesame" has been receiving a lot attention, this week the New York Times Magazine focuses on "Shara’a...
Poll finds US Jews support Obama, Netanyahu
By Sarah Breger
A majority of American Jews approve of both Obama’s and Netanyahu’s handling of US-Israel relations but do not agree with Obama’s call for...
This Week's Links
By Sarah Breger
Rugalech makers take note, cupcake are the new key to Mideast peace.
Beyonce to perform in Israel. No word if HOVA will accompany...
Steve Urkel Stands Under the Chuppah in "Road to the Altar"
By Sarah Breger
The fall TV season has started, but there is one summer show you should make sure to catch up on (and with four...
Rosh Hashanah Roundup
By Sarah Breger
Fashion week drew to a close yesterday and some of the hottest designs were from Ralph Lauren, Diane von Furstenberg and Isaac Mizrachi....
You Never Write, You Never Twitter
By Sarah Breger
Twitter parodies have become pretty stale, and no one could beat the mom translator sketch on SNL earlier this year, but Twitteleh: Twitter...
Battle of the Jewish Book Nerds
By Sarah Breger
In an interview with The New Yorker’s Book Bench, Lev Grossman, Time’s book critic and author of The Magicians explains his long-standing feud...
Jeremy Ben Ami is the new Don Draper
By Sarah Breger
The interweb has been abuzz this past weekend over the publication of the NYT magazine profile of J Street.
Critics of the left-leaning Israel...
This Week's Links
By Sarah Breger
The Forward launches The Sisterhood, a website "devoted to the issues impacting Jewish women of all ages, denominations and political ideologies."
Speaking of...
Holocaust Deniers Ad Runs in Harvard Newspaper
Get ShortlinkBy Sarah Breger
On Tuesday Harvard’s campus newspaper The Crimson published a full page ad from a Holocaust denial group, prompting outrage pretty much everywhere.
The...