Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (The Great Gatsby Edition)
Been on the Internet today? My guess is yes. In that case, you've probably seen the trailer for Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby....
The New Religious Intolerance: An Interview with Martha Nussbaum
By Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil
From Switzerland’s ban on minarets, to France’s ban on headscarves, and the controversy that raged over Park 51, the “Ground Zero Mosque”...
Remembering Sholom Aleichem
by Kara A. Kaufman
It’s not every day that you see your own photograph in a newspaper, much less a Russian publication printed halfway around the...
Amar’e Gets Animated
First there were New Yorker cartoons with Kanye West tweets. Now there are Moment cartoons with Amar'e Stoudemire tweets. No explanation should be necessary.
Marshall Breger: Why Jews Can’t Criticize Sharia Law
Similarities between Judaism and Islam are easy to see. Both are monotheistic religions for whom the Lord is One. Both are religions based on revelation....
Recovering Messiah: Marc Maron
If ever there was a tale of comic resurrection, it belongs to Marc Maron.
The 48-year-old comedian’s climb back from drugs, drinking and despair—with a lot...
A Vietnamese Yom Kippur
by Kelley Kidd
A Yom Kippur spent fasting on the beautiful island paradise of Phu Quoc, in Vietnam, is not my typical Day of Atonement. But...
Thousands of Little Pharaohs: The Plight of the Agunah
By Martin Berman-Gorvine
In this Passover season, consider the plight of Jewish women whose marriages have ended but whose (former) husbands refuse them a get (bill...
Escape from Freedom?
By Martin Berman-Gorvine
As Passover approaches, I have been reading the psychologist Erich Fromm’s 1941 work, Escape from Freedom. Writing when Nazi Germany was at its...
A Match Made in the O.R.
by Sala Levin
The dating ritual is replete with anxieties: What dress to wear? How long should I wait to call after the date? Is my...
Book Review | In Love with Life—and Himself
By Alan A. Stone
DucClaude Lanzmann is known on this side of the Atlantic as the Frenchman who created the monumental film, Shoah. He tells us that...