Hunting the Tribes

Tamar D. Yellin is the author of Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes. She is…

Tour Diary: Pitom Goes to France

The band Pitom is on tour in France. In the meantime, frontman Yoshie Fruchter is…

Can Phish Tell You How To Get To Sesame Street?

Last week I received a piece of fascinating Muppet news:  Sesame Street and Phish share…

Battle with an Etrog, Wild Things, and a Biologicical Clock

Friday morning, October 16, 2009. Mighty Mouse’s 67th birthday. The mail arrives with an unexpected…

5 Composers Murdered By the Nazis

Theresienstadt concentration camp, or Terezín as it was usually called, was an oddity, even by…

Ada Yonath: Israel’s First Female Nobelist

Last week, Weizmann Institute scientist Ada Yonath was named a co-recipient of this year’s Nobel…

As It Is Written: Deciphering The Penmanship of Jewish Innovators

A while back, my office received a large shipment of books courtesy of The Jewish…

Museum Quality at $16.95 a Pound

[Editor’s note: this piece was inspired by the recent New York Times article "At Jewish…