The European Jewish Press describes how one of the most storied and endangered of Jewish books, the...
The Arts
I’m the decider and I decide what’s best. And what’s best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain...
This blog post began as an effort to showcase my son Jonah’s “genius” (you’ll forgive a dad...
David Moss haggadah illustration (source: Library.yale.edu) I’m a sucker for the Passover seder. There are many reasons....
I read an article in today’s NY Times about a lawsuit against a New York street photographer...
Today is the third anniversary of the murder of Rachel Corrie, the pro-Palestinian activist run over by...
Mark Klempner, at one time a Los Angeles session musician beset with a spiritual crisis, eventually decided...
The New York Theater Workshop may’ve chickened out of producing My Name is Rachel Corrie but Brooklyn’s...
I was always under the impression that theater at its best was meant to provoke, challenge and...
An Iranian newspaper devised a Holocaust cartoon contest in vengeful response to the Muhammed cartoon fiasco. In...
A Danish paper has stirred up a huge row with its series of cartoons depicting the prophet...
In the largest single gift to an N.C.A.A. athletic program, the Texas oil magnate T. Boone Pickens...












