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Look what I discovered in my quest to find cool Rosh HaShanah cards.  The "New…

The Heretic: Going Colorblind in a Jewish Nursing Home

I caught early chunks of Obama’s acceptance speech at the gym of my local JCC.…

POEM: Secret Places of the Stairs

Telling secrets in the secret places of the stairs: Fingertips, like lighted candles, reaching out,…

A Personal History of Jewish Reading

  Were someone to ask me what I do for a living, I’d respond: I’m…

The New Jew Canon: Sefer Ha-Aggadah, Open Closed Open, At the Root of this Longing

The New Jew Canon is a long-term project that seeks to canonize essential Jewish (and…

Žižek For Jews

Slavoj Žižek declares in his latest opus, In Defense of Lost Causes (Verso), that while…

Sammy Harkham Stands Accused

Even if you're not a comic aficionado, the work of Sammy Harkham makes it easy…

Is Alejandro Springall the Mexican Woody Allen?

Mexican director Alejandro Springall describes My Mexican Shivah as a film "about existence" and "acquiring…