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Lost in the stars
May 14, 2013
First, let’s take a deep breath. Stephen Hawking’s decision to join the academic boycott of Israel may be infuriating, but it’s not the end of the world. On balance, I’ll prefer to remember it as a week in which Facebook appeared ready to buy its third Israeli company and the Washington Post declared Israel “a major player in the Mediterranean, and perhaps even the European, natural gas market.” Read More
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Cut ups and cul-de-sacs
May 1, 2013
"Hava Nagila: The Movie" looks at an American Jewish culture in sunset. Like Mel Brooks' comedy, "Hava" represents a time when being Jewish didn't require a membership. Read More
It’s 2013. Let’s debate Zionism!
April 24, 2013
The New York Times has recently seen fit to publish two different essays that, in the sarcastic words of a friend, “trumpet the forgotten beauty of rejecting Jewish statehood.” Read More
Commemorative dissonance
April 17, 2013
Outsiders often have a hard time absorbing the emotional one-two punch with which Israel marks its birthday. Read More
Good news travels slowly
April 9, 2013
Here’s a Jewish joke I just made up: The pro-Israel activist goes to see a doctor. The doctor says, “I have some good news and some bad news.” The pro-Israel activist says, “Just give me the bad news.” Read More
You could look it up
April 3, 2013
Is Nate Silver destroying our ability to argue? Where Google and Wikipedia change our relationship with facts, Silver transforms our relationship with opinion. Read More
The funny thing is
March 27, 2013
What does it mean when mainstream humorists are writing jokes best understood by the less than 2 percent of the population that is Jewish? Read More
Eat, don’t pray, don’t love
March 20, 2013
You don’t have to read Jami Attenberg’s novel The Middlesteins (Hachette) as an allegory about the rise and decline of American Jewry. The central theme of the book — perhaps the most buzzed-about Jewish novel since Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything Is Illuminated — is love: how we earn it, why we need it, how and why we throw it away. Read More
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