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By Sarah Breger In an interview with The New Yorker’s Book Bench, Lev Grossman, Time’s book critic and author of The Magicians explains his long-standing feud with Jonathan Safran Foer: I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who...
By Maxine Springer In Moment's article about great Jewish films, author Lester Friedman picks Dirty Dancing, starring Patrick Swayze, as one of his favorite Jewish films. He says, "This is one of the few films set around a Jewish-American woman and centers on her maturation during a...
By Sarah Breger The interweb has been abuzz this past weekend over the publication of the NYT magazine profile of J Street. Critics of the left-leaning Israel group have promptly responded, asserting that having moderate Arab and Muslim board members makes the group anti-Israel and calling...
By Sarah Breger The Forward launches The Sisterhood, a website "devoted to the issues impacting Jewish women of all ages, denominations and political ideologies." [The Sisterhood] Speaking of Jewish women, Tznius-ista, a company for women who want to wear high-fashion but still keep Orthodox standards of...
Get ShortlinkBy Sarah Breger On Tuesday Harvard’s campus newspaper The Crimson published a full page ad from a Holocaust denial group, prompting outrage pretty much everywhere. The ad was submitted by the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust and challenged readers to “provide, with proof, the...
By Sarah Breger Gossip Girl may be the key to Mideast Peace. Especially Chuck Bass. [Tablet] Joanna Rakoff Smith looks at the portrayal of Judaism on the TV show Weeds. [Jewcy] Haredi Girls are being paid not to wear make-up. Over-protective dads everywhere take note. [Ynet] Shalom Seseme...
by Sarah Breger So now Jews have jumped on the "dancing down the aisle" meme. In an homage to the overplayed, yet undeniably adorable, Chris Brown "Forever" wedding dance intro, some Orthodox Jews have jumped on the bandwagon and created a dance sequence of their own. Set...
By Sarah Breger In Prague yesterday, a train set off on a four-day journey to London to honor the work of a man referred to as “Britain's Schindler.” Nicolas Winton, a British stockbroker, organized eight trains to carry 669 Czechoslovakian children to the safety of England....
By Michelle Albert Jewish singer Bob Dylan is working on an album of Christmas music. Puns such as "Sleigh Lady Sleigh" and "A Hard Reindeer's A-Gonna Fall" are already making the rounds. [Reuters] (PS: read Moment's article about Bob Dylan here.) A swastika was painted outside Georgia...
