This is the first of a two-post series that will appear today and tomorrow. Read part 2 here. Tablet Magazine is, according to the PR blurb its editor Alana Newhouse sent me, in answer to questions I posed to her: …A site devoted to coverage of Jewish life, identity and culture in all of its forms […]
Dick Cheney: U.S. Will Never Pressure Israel
My Israeli friend, Zvi Solow, just wrote me about Dick Cheney’s blessed visit to the Holy Land. I was so touched to know that he davened there on Easter. Perhaps he was looking for a divine sign of the resurrection of his political prospects. Jesus may be able to raise the dead but even he […]
‘Recovering Yiddishland,’ New Book by Merle Bachman
My brother visited this weekend for Thanksgiving and told me he’d heard from an old friend I hadn’t seen since about 1983, Merle Bachman. We’d been friends back when I was in a Comp Lit doctoral program at UC Berkeley. Merle wrote poetry I recall and knew my brother from Brandeis. I had no idea […]
Gevalt! Yiddish with Dick & Jane Authors are Auf Tsuris!
Face Copyright Suit from Real Dick & Jane
A zochen vay! (“What a pain!) That’s what Barbara Davilman and Ellis Weiner might’ve said when they were served with a lawsuit by Pearson Education, the publishing company that owns the copyright to the Dick and Jane reading primers (Primer Spoof With Yiddish Faces Suit (in English)). I’ve posted here about their adorable Yiddish with […]
