The De-Militarized Zone: Politics and Religion in the Middle East
By Samantha Sisskind
AMMAN, JORDAN – The swastika and anti-Israel graffiti spray-painted on the wall of a church parking lot I pass on the way to my school...
What’s In a Name?
By Gabriel Weinstein
For hundreds of years, Ethiopian Jews dreamed of strolling through Jerusalem’s supposed golden streets and celebrating the Sigd festival in its hills. By...
The Hidden Israel
By Symi Rom-Rymer
A chubby young African boy dressed head-to-toe in an Israeli police officer’s uniform looks defiantly into the camera. A teenage girl in a...
Sky-Scraping Prices in Tel Aviv
by Merav Levkowitz
HGTV recently aired the Israel episode of House Hunters International, where two Chicago sisters with a $500,000 budget searched for an apartment in Tel...
Kosher for Halloween
By Daniel Kieval
It's Halloween in the suburbs. For a couple of weeks, already, the neighborhood decorations have been out in full force: pumpkins, black cats,...
De-constructing a City of Queer Borders
By Lily Hoffman Simon
If you were to ask someone to picture the queer community in Israel, it is a fair bet to say that they would...
Hasidim, Hipsters, and the New Crown Heights
by Symi Rom-Rymer
Hasidim and Hipsters can’t be friends, so says conventional wisdom. But maybe they can eat together. At least that’s what Danny Branover, principal...
It’s cheese! It’s mustard! It’s…a knish?
By Symi Rom-Rymer
If you happened to be walking down Second Avenue in New York’s East Village last Sunday afternoon, you might have seen an...
A Gleeful Take on Religion
By Lisa Krysiak
This week’s episode of Glee was in stark contrast from last week’s hilariously over-the-top ode to Britney Spears. It delved into the difficult...
They’re Here, They’re Queer….We’re still getting used to it.
By Niv Elis
Dismayed. Disappointed. Disgusted.
These are the adjectives commenters posted in response to a statement by The Jewish Standard, a New Jersey weekly, declaring that...
What Do Jews and Mormons Have in Common?
By Lisa Krysiak and Sala Levin
An above-average knowledge of the "core teachings, history and leading figures of major world religions," according to a recent survey by...
Boxing Gym
By Symi Rom-Rymer
Lord’s Gym, Austin, Texas:
Thwack.
Sssssss.
Clang, clang, clang.
Slapslapslapslap.
In a small, white shingled building hidden behind a Goodwill store, posters of famous fights and fighters frozen...