The Ghosts of Beirut’s Jewish Past

A new book is out in Lebanon, written by BBC journalist Nada Abdelsamad: "Wadi Abu…

Hands Off Anne Frank’s Diary

‘I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be…

On Being Black, White, and Jewish

The news this week has been saturated with issues of race, otherness, and problems of…

Chagall in Postville

Eli Valley has never been one to back down from a controversial viewpoint. In his…

Garfield Minus Garfield Plus God

When Dubliner Dan Walsh removed Garfield from the classic Jim Davis cartoons, drawing attention to…

JEWCYEST WEEK EVER

So after the Grammys last night (was T-Pain even singing?), we’re all sitting around watching…

Gary Shteyngart Becomes American

Unless there is a secret pocket of Choctaw Indians that look at this site, I’m…

Claiming J.D. Salinger (1919-2010)

Let me get this little bit out of the way right now: Louis Menand of…