Chappelle Stirs the Pot As Fallout from Kanye’s Antisemitism Boils Over
Comedian Dave Chappelle sparked controversy about antisemitism after commenting on Ye’s recent comments in his SNL monologue.
Talk of the Table | Falafel: The Crunch that Binds or Ball of Confusion?
Let’s face it, Canada and the United States are not in conflict over the origins of the donut and which national brand is superior, Dunkin’ or Horton’s.
Jewish Word | ‘Almah’ Grows Up
After working for seven years at a Jewish parenting website, Molly Tolsky wanted to create a space for an audience she herself identified with: young Jewish women focusing on careers and their place in the world who weren’t necessarily thinking about marriage or children.
First Jewish Miss Wyoming Heading to National Stage
Hazel Homer-Wambeam hails from a small but mighty Jewish community in Laramie, Wyoming. With only 1,150 Jews in the whole Cowboy State and no synagogue...
Book Review | Whose Biblical Law Is This, Anyway?
In The Book of Revolutions, Edward Feld explores the different political traditions that shaped the Torah as we know it today.
Moment Debate | In Embracing Hungary’s Orbán, Are American Conservatives Romancing an Antisemite?
Quite a few conservatives support Orbán.
Book Review | Very, Very Dirty Money
The stories that David de Jong first reported for Bloomberg News and now recounts in his book Nazi Billionaires document the sordid embrace of the Nazi regime by Germany’s wealthiest industrial dynasties and those dynasties’ continued prosperity today.
Book Review | The Maus That Roared
The latest cycle of public panic over book-banning—as distinct from the constant, threatening drumbeat of book-banning itself—kicked off last January when The New York Times reported that a school board in McMinn County, Tennessee, had withdrawn Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel/memoir Maus: A Survivor’s Tale from the eighth-grade Holocaust education curriculum.
Opinion Interview | Who Gets a Religious Exemption?
The landscape of church-state issues is increasingly fluid, but even so, few people probably expected Yeshiva University (YU), a Modern Orthodox Jewish institution in New York, to ask the Supreme Court to permit it to block recognition of gay student groups on campus.
Book Review | A Jewish Kid Who Loved Yeats
Robert Pinsky’s father, an Orthodox Jewish optician in Long Branch, New Jersey, liked to sum up success stories with a favorite phrase: “It all worked out okay.”
From the Editor | The Eighth Night: A Time to Remember Great Women
The story of Hanukkah, the annual festival of Maccabean might and miracles, doesn’t talk much about women, although two are occasionally associated with the holiday.
Opinion | We Are What We Give
When I was a girl, my mother told me I must always wear clean panties in case I got hit by a bus.