ThisNew York Times story on an Atlanta-area Chabad rabbi reviving the practice of gemach, a traditional Jewish program that offers no-interest loans to struggling Jews. The economic downturn, Rabbi Hirshy Minkowicz says, has forced some Jews to seek financial assistance.
Jeffrey Toobin’s 2009 profile of retiring Rep. Barney Frank in The New Yorker; a fond remembrance of some of Frank’s choicer bon mots.