Avi Kramer

Avi is a fiction writer living in Boston.

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Shvitz Spritz: Gut Feeling

Michael Chertoff cites "gut feeling" that Al Qaeda will strike this summer. [The Los Angeles…

Photo of the Day: Gay Immigrants Seek Refuge

Gramoz Prestreshi, left, was accepted as a legal refugee in the United States, and Korab…

Shvitz Spritz: Impeach the Bastards

Talks fail; nearly 50 Pakistanis dead in early-morning raid on mosque. [The New York Times]…

Primo Levi’s Need to Write About Auschwitz

"In Levi's writing, nothing is superfluous and everything is essential."—Saul Bellow Of all the Holocaust…

Shvitz Spritz: Israel’s Condi Rice

The rising political stardom and the work ahead for Israel's foreign minister, Tzipi Livni. [The…

Photo of the Day: Libby (Sort Of) Off the Hook

Bush nixes Libby’s two-and-a-half year prison sentence. [The New York Times] Clearly, Bush missed the…

Renegade Jew

In January, Jewcy showcased an email dialogue between associate editor Michael Weiss and novelist/scholar Rebecca…

The Week in Jews

WE GET LAID BECAUSE OF ‘MUNICH’ THE NEWS: “Knocked Up” gives off-handed discussion of Jewish…