Amy Winehouse to Play Nelson Mandela’s 90th Birthday Benefit

Ever play that Six Degrees of Separation game where you pair two completely opposite people…

Carrie Bradshaw Is Not Twenty-Five, You Guys

“We still live vicariously through Carrie,” says one woman in this New York Times video…

Rachael Ray May Be Awful, But She Probably Isn’t a Terrorist

One of the minor problems with being a reconstructed neocon weenie such as myself is…

Out of the Ashes: A new German Jewry?

Dateline: POTSDAM, August, 2005—I am in Germany as part of a collaborative three-nation research study…

The Lame Duck in Israel

Jerusalem has never seemed so American. By chance, my first trip since living here two…

“Buffy” Auteur Joss Whedon Didn’t Kill Off Jewish X-Man Kitty Pryde

Whew. Today a bullet was dodged. Literally. Kitty Pryde — the Magen Dovid–toting, mutant-powered, Jewgirl…

Clip: Are Galifianakis and Showalter the Most Indie Comedians Ever?

This so-farfetched-it-could-be-real clip features Zack Galifianakis as himself — well, as someone named Zack Galifianakis…

Should We Be Entrusting the Peace Process to Adam Sandler?

The New York Times covers the impending release of You Don’t Mess With the Zohan…