Marissa Brostoff, a doctoral student in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, is a former staff writer at Tablet and the Forward.
How the Obama-ites Are Redefining Judaism
Much to learn from NYT’s ’20-Somethings’
Sundown: Europe’s J Street
Plus, the ‘new Afrikaners,’ a murder trial, and a foot robbery
Berkeley Brouhaha
Philosopher Judith Butler Redefines ‘Zionist’
Party Tonight for the Next (or Last?) Great Jewish Novel
By Tablet columnist Joshua Cohen
Another Day, Another Ponzi Scheme
Plus, a questionable study and a Real Housewive’s tale
The Great Orthodox Merengue Scandal
Major bike-lane player dances to a different tune
Sundown: When It Comes to Nuclear War, No News Is Good News
Plus, kosher beef and disappearing books
Ramadan and Lévy: Separated At Birth?
Mirror images at odds
A New Leaf
Seventy years after the release of his first book, the bestselling ‘As a Driven Leaf,’ Rabbi Milton Steinberg (posthumously) offers a sophomore effort
Look Out!
Sam Lipsyte’s novel The Ask and Noah Baumbach’s movie Greenberg breathe new life into the figure of the shlemiel
Ben-Gurion
The Eichmann Trial
Sacred Trash
Sounding Off
Note to some of my fellow progressives: If we can’t argue about Israel without using anti-Semitic tropes, then the debate is lost before it even begins
The Dispossessed
Hugo Chávez is ramping up his assault on Venezuela’s upper class, and now a rare Jewish paradise is squarely in his sights. Can it be salvaged?
The Tenth Man
The key to Christopher Hitchens wasn’t his iconoclasm; it was his desire for belonging—and the proof can be found in an unexpected place
- If you are like us, you will enjoy this new Leslie Epstein excerpt http://t.co/NTZ1Yb67
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Cheap Eats
An entrepreneur opened a Jewish-themed restaurant in Lviv, Ukraine. Chopped liver is on the menu, but not its price—diners get to haggle over it.
Grace Notes
Orthodox klezmer and bluegrass virtuoso Andy Statman and evangelical country star Ricky Skaggs cross genres and faiths to form a mighty duo
Goodbye to All That
For generations, the Jews of Caracas had idyllic weather, prosperity, and vibrant communal organizations. Things have changed under Hugo Chávez.
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Pregnant Pause
Pregnancies are fertile ground for superstition, especially for those who assume their traditions and lucky charms are based in Jewish lawby Allison HoffmanHeroine Stupor
Wanted Women, a new joint biography of two Muslim women, refuses to distinguish between an al-Qaida terrorist and a feminist intellectualby Andrew RobertsSt. Leonard’s Passion
Leonard Cohen releases his 12th album, Old Ideas. The troubadour and poet hasn’t always been popular, but he is always profound.by Liel LeibovitzKeep the Faith
The battered Israeli left can advance its agenda only if it learns to stop fearing religion and embrace the notion of the Chosen Peopleby Liel LeibovitzVigor Juice
Jews and Booze, a fascinating new history of Prohibition-era bootleggers, barmen, rabbis, and cops, picks up where HBO’s Boardwalk Empire leaves offby Allan Nadler




