- Meet the Chai Riders of New York City and the Hillel’s Angels of New Jersey, Jewish motorcycle gangs terrorizing the nation’s highways, making mitzvahs and picking up bagels.
- At The Paris Review, Sadie Stein discusses a viewing of Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness, and her attempts to understand the Yiddish language that her grandfather (who happened to be the late Joseph Stein, writer of the Fiddler on the Roof screenplay) spoke to her as a child.
- Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak didn’t want asylum in Israel because he’s a “patriot.” And now he’s laying in a hospital bed while he stands trial. Let that be a lesson to you: patriotism isn’t always the best idea.
- Mila Kunis gets all mad Russian on a reporter who wants to know about Justin Timberlake’s music career.