The stereotype of “Jewish” hair is rooted in a history of racial pseudoscience, radical self-empowerment and comic self-deprecation. ...

Joan Nathan, the queen of Jewish American and Israeli cookbooks, takes to the old continent in her new book, Quiches, Kugels

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Few films have packed as much punch for American political culture as Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 The Ten Commandments. With

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  Dani Dayan, head of Israel’s settler lobby, Yesha, has successfully kept another settlement freeze­—and peace talks—off the table. But

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Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a Higher Authority reviewed by Robin Aronson ...
The overtrained and underemployed among Israel’s Arabs long for a good job—and equal opportunities­. After decades of economic inequality, Israelis—Jewish and Arab—are working together to crack the glass. ...
These ancient laws, long central to our way of life, have become a divisive symbol. Do they still matter? Or is it time for an upgrade? A range of American thinkers­ speak up, and be warned—they don’t agree on much. (See related stories on pages 21 and 24.) ...