Relive the Glory Days With ‘Welcome to Kutsher’s: The Last Catskills Resort’

My memories of vacations at Kutsher’s Hotel and Country Club are of plush carpet, elegant grounds, and matzoh ball soup—and that was in the 1990s, years after the resort’s 1950s heyday

Party Like a Post-Soviet: How Owning Your Roots Enhances the Party Now

On September 8, Brighton Beach celebrates the new crop of post-Soviet Jews, who are are anything but doe-eyed FOBs

Meet the Guy Who Inspired The Dude in the Coen Brothers’ ‘The Big Lebowski’

Jeff Bridges channeled Jeff Dowd in the 1998 cult classic, a new documentary by Jeff Feuerzeig reveals

Regina Spektor Opens Up About Life in the Former Soviet Union

The Soviet-born singer also discusses her new album, ‘What We Saw From the Cheap Seats,’ on NPR’s Fresh Air

Network Jews: Saul Berenson from Showtime’s Homeland

The CIA Middle East division chief is the most accurately depicted American Jew on television

Sorkin’s Jews of Yore

In anticipation of ‘The Newsroom’ finale on Sunday, a look at some of Sorkin’s beloved Jewish characters on ‘The West Wing’ and ‘Sports Night’

Culture Kvetch: Andy Zaltzman, Radio Comic for an Internet World

John Oliver’s lesser-known partner on British podcast “The Bugle” mixes low-brow, pun-filled humor with scabrous political satire

Network Jews: Cristina Yang from ABC’s Hospital Drama, ‘Grey’s Anatomy’

The determined atheist doctor who pulls out her Judaism when it counts