Fabulous, Feel-good, and Fatwa-Free
By Symi Rom-Rymer
When a Muslim and a Jew walk into a bar, it’s a joke. When a Muslim discovers he was born Jewish, it’s a...
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An Anne Frank for the 21st Century
By Symi Rom-Rymer
For Yom Hashoah this year, PBS devoted a week to films with Jewish themes. Among its many offerings was a revised and “most...
Shtetl Life Reexamined
By Symi Rom-Rymer
A picture is worth a thousand words, so goes the old cliché. But as Alana Newhouse’s recently published New York Times article on...
Haikus: The New Political Medium
By Michelle Albert
Political haikus
Skewer talking heads to roast
Pass barbecue sauce
If you need an outlet for politically-based anger, want to flex your poetic muscles or just...
The Seder: Not Just for Jews Anymore
By Symi Rom-Rymer
Did you know that the three pieces of matzo used during Seder represent the holy trinity? Or that a leg of lamb on...
I Love A Parade
By Symi Rom-Rymer
Living in a large, multi-cultural city like New York, you get used to the ethnic parades that come through town. In early fall,...
Monday politics roundup
By Sarah Breger
Tensions Boil over at the AIPAC conference
"New construction in East Jerusalem or the West Bank undermines mutual trust and endangers the proximity talks...
Your culture fix for March 17, 2010
By Sarah Breger
IN CELEBRATION OF ST. PATRICK-STEIN'S DAY
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, The Wall Street Journal reviews If It Wasn't for the Irish and...
The Jews of Modern Poland
By Symi Rom-Rymer
The New York Times recently published a piece recently about a former Polish neo-Nazi who discovered his Jewish roots as an adult and...
Oscar and the Jews
By Symi Rom-Rymer
This year’s Oscars brought us some surprises (Sandra Bullock), some truly painful dance sequences (I’m looking at you Adam Shankman), and some deserving...
Your Wednesday Culture Fix
By Sarah Breger
MILLIONS OF CATHOLICS ARE OF JEWISH ANCESTRY
Steve Jones of the UK Telegraph examines the complex issues of religious identity and DNA, finding that...