Dvora Meyers
Camp Lessons
In between color wars and singalongs, some Jewish summer camps include Holocaust education in their programming. What does that teach campers about Jewish identity?
Skirt Shorts
Denim defined fashion for a generation of frum schoolgirls, who played with Orthodoxy’s rules of modesty through small acts of sartorial rebellion. A slideshow of one woman’s beskirted past.
Branded
I’d always wanted a tattoo, but believed, following this week’s parasha, that it was categorically prohibited. Before making the commitment, I had to wrestle with the text.
A Hot Mess
Never mind the nice Jewish girls like Natalie Portman, the most compelling character in today’s pop culture is Amy Winehouse, a Jewish mother’s worst nightmare but still daddy’s little girl
Something Borrowed
My single mother had set aside a “wedding fund” for me, money to pay for a ceremony and party. But still single at 27, and with school loans mounting, I saw another way to buy myself happiness.
An Unmarried Woman
Alone among the Bible’s heroes, the prophet Devorah, my namesake and the hero of this week’s haftorah, didn’t need a man to make her complete. But what can a modern single woman learn from her?
Q & A with Authors Sarah Rose and Joel Derfner
The stars of Sundance’s ‘Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys’
Sundown: France to Send Lebanon Anti-Tank Missiles
Plus Rahm gives tours of his basement and more
Sitting Pop Culture Shiva for Larry King
Larry King hangs up his suspenders. We tell you how to cope.
Winona Reveals The Shocking Truth! Mel Doesn’t Like Jews!
Also, some thoughts on dodging kitchen appliances
Pamela Visits Western Wall
Danny Ayalon is glad to have her
Video Killed the Modern Orthodox Star
Esther Petrack departs ‘America’s Next Top Model’
An Afternoon With Avi Steinberg
The secular Jew who actually misses religion
Sundown: Bibi’s Preferred Donors
Plus a stealth subway artist and more.
Esther Is Ready for Her Close-Up
This week on ‘America’s Next Top Model’
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
Ben-Gurion
The Eichmann Trial
Sacred Trash
Unmolested
An accused pedophile from ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn has never faced trial, thanks in part to a D.A. who had political reasons not to pursue the case
The End of the Jewish Left
Political theorist Michael Walzer and others argue about the death of the century-long Jewish-Leftist alliance
Greased, Frightening
John Travolta’s massages, ‘homosexual Jewish men’ in Hollywood, and the true nature of prejudice
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- What if a famous Jew intermarried, and nobody noticed? (cough, Mark Zuckerberg) http://t.co/zO5zo3P8
Voices Raised for Jerusalem
The Zamir Chorale brings its Jewish choral music to Jazz at Lincoln Center in celebration of Yom Yerushalayim
Old Jews Telling More Jokes
The web series ‘Old Jews Telling Jokes’ goes off-Broadway, with shtick, songs, and a script by writer Daniel Okrent
The Most Perfect Hebrew Bible
The medieval Aleppo Codex was safeguarded for centuries in Syria. The problems started when it arrived in Israel.
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Stay Out of It
By Hillel Y. Levin — On same-sex marriage, Orthodox Jews should keep the religious and civil separate—as they do on other issuesThe End of the Jewish Left
By Adam Kirsch — Political theorist Michael Walzer and others argue about the death of the century-long Jewish-Leftist allianceThe Treblinka Gold Rush
By Jan T. Gross — After World War II, Polish peasants hunted for jewels and gold amid the human remains at former Nazi death campsRallying Against the Internet
By Micah Stein — A sold-out event at New York’s Citi Field aims to unite the ultra-Orthodox world against online ‘evils’Worry Like a Jewish Mother
By Marjorie Ingall — Simple guidelines for making moms neurotic, from Marge Simpson’s favorite magazine, Fretful Mother




