At Sanity Rally, Sense Through Satire
By Symi Rom-Rymer
In the weeks leading up to last Saturday’s Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, the media world was practically falling...
The Emergence of Jewish Republicans
By Gabriel Weinstein
After a year of raucous Tea Party protests, growing disillusionment with presidential policies and economic stagnation, Republicans’ fantasy of regaining control of at...
ObamaCare Turns the Tables on the Jewish Mothers
By Doni Kandel
An unusual wave of exhilarating self-confidence has overcome Jewish sons across America, according to reports. The surprising cause of buoyancy? Obamacare.
Political scientists, thought...
A Familiar Injustice
by Ben Goldberg
Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” If that’s the case, Italy and France’s recent treatment...
Textbook Tussle
By Symi Rom-Rymer
"No other country in the world, in its official curriculum, would treat the fact of its founding as a catastrophe," categorically stated Education...
Jews In the Media on Jews In The Media
By Ben Goldberg
CNN anchor Rick Sanchez was fired last weekend after calling Jon Stewart a “bigot” and saying that CNN and most of the media...
Web Exlclusive – The Kosher Tea Party
It's well-known that American Jews tend to lean left politically. Over 70 percent, for example, voted for Barack Obama. But what about the rest of...
Neo-Nazi Karma
By Niv Elis
In what must be a neo-Nazi's worst nightmare, two Polish skinheads (a married couple) discovered that they are, in fact, Jewish.
Joining the ranks...
Jenny Slate – A Star in the Making
By Lisa Krysiak
Many Jewish ladies in Hollywood are known for, or at least get their starts, in comedy. Gilda Radner and Sarah Silverman (an honoree...
A Sukkah for the 21st Century
By Symi Rom-Rymer
When I think about sukkahs—which I admit is not that often—it is rarely in architectural or even creative terms. As a child, around...
Interview with director of A Film Unfinished
By Sala Levin
A Film Unfinished, a new documentary from Israeli director Yael Hersonski, is composed mostly of images you've likely already seen. Many...
A Film Unfinished
By Symi Rom-Rymer
In an East German archive, three reels of silent film lay untouched and forgotten amid the chaos of World War II and its...