Snapshots: An Excerpt

Acclaimed author Michal Govrin’s Snapshots, excerpted here for the first time, received Israel’s 2003 AKUM…

How to Clean a Fish Tank

Here’s something most of us will never be able to say: There’s a guy here…

Jews and Pop Culture: If Not Now, When? And if Now, Why?

Reviewed: Paul Buhle Jews and American Popular Culture Praeger Publishers 2007   Growing up in…

What the Angry Atheists Get Wrong

Recent polemics by proud and angry atheists have gotten many of us—faithful and skeptical alike—thinking…

What’s So Funny About Sex, Pop & Understanding?

For a while now, it's been a half-joking and half-serious suggestion on my part: fight…

The Best of Harry Potter Fan Fiction

I have a sick fascination with fan fiction, those often epic-novels written by ardent fans…

Inside the German Brain: An English Neurosurgeon Abroad

Once you get used to the smell of formaldehyde, operating on the heads of cadavers…

A Long Way from Zion

Reviewed: Michael Chabon The Yiddish Policemen’s Union HarperCollins, 2007 Michael Chabon knows how to shmear…