Chefs’ Hanukkah Food (and Wine!) Recommendations
We asked four of our favorite chefs to share their recipes for some fabulous holiday fare—plus an accompanying wine.
Book Review // Debriefing: Collected Stories
Not long after the publication of her acclaimed 1992 historical romance The Volcano Lover, Susan Sontag had dinner in a small Italian restaurant on the Upper East Side of Manhattan with Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal.
Book Review // When Basketball Was Jewish: Voices of Those Who Played the Game
In Farewell to Sport, published in 1938, the popular New York Daily News sports columnist Paul Gallico, when departing the world of sports to write fiction (The Poseidon Adventure later became one of his best-sellers), reflected on the wide variety of sports and sports figures he had covered.
After 20 Years, Translation of the Zohar Is Finished
When Berkeley professor Daniel Matt was approached to translate the Zohar, he was more than a little hesitant.
Book Review | Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio
Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack. The Warner Brothers. Theirs was a family show, one for all and all for one.
Painting With Paper: Q&A With Artist Ronni Jolles
Ronni Jolles describes her unconventional method as “painting with paper”: Using a variety of sizes and colors, she layers sheets of paper to create depth in her pieces.
Book Review | Jewish Comedy: A Serious history
Funny Jews: An Epistolary Conversation
Simon Schama Steals The Show
The Effusive British Historian And Master Storyteller Is Back To Tell Part Two Of His History Of The Jewish People.
A Short History of Little Words
It’s hard to escape the OMGs and LOLs of today, but don’t blame millennials—acronyms actually originated thousands of years ago with the development of the ancient Hebrew alphabet. Around the 10th century BCE, Hebrew letters emerged out of ideographic pictures and, soon after, groups of letters started to be used in place of frequently recurring words.
A Jewish Artist in Post-Dreyfus Paris
When the 22-year-old Italian Jewish artist Amedeo Modigliani arrived in Paris in 1906, his health was already compromised. He had suffered childhood bouts of pleurisy, had nearly died of typhoid fever at age 11 and had been diagnosed with tuberculosis at 16. In his first years in the City of Light, which was rife with anti-Semitism in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair…
Our Readers’ Favorite Jewish Films
We asked our readers: What’s the best Jewish movie scene of all time?
Book Review | The Book of Separation by Tova Mirvis
One Shabbat, toward the end of the morning service, Tova Mirvis was stricken by a debilitating headache, in which “the pain concentrated along the line where my hat met my head.”