Marjorie Ingall
Worry Like a Jewish Mother
Simple guidelines for making moms neurotic, from Marge Simpson’s favorite magazine, Fretful Mother
Mitt Romney’s Mormon Politics
Is there a Jewish equivalent to the translation of sacred to political?
May 23, 2012 3:35 PM
Columnists
Agents of Influence — Lee Smith
Hezbollah’s Newest Threat
Lebanon’s Party of God is feeling heat from certain Shiites, who aren’t eager to serve as human shields again
The Tattler — Rachel Shukert
Greased, Frightening
John Travolta’s massages, ‘homosexual Jewish men’ in Hollywood, and the true nature of prejudice
Marjorie Ingall
Fun for a Girl and a Bow
From Hunger Games to the London Olympics, archery—a Lag B’Omer tradition and great girl-power sport—is hot
The Tattler — Rachel Shukert
Praised Be GCB
The born-again ABC show offers Kristin Chenoweth, camp, and TV that doesn’t require Talmudic analysis
Agents of Influence — Lee Smith
The Israel Lobby’s GOP Past
Jewish voters are a reliable Democratic bloc. But the Republican Party established the first platform on Israel—and brought the Democrats along.
Literature — Adam Kirsch
Haunted by Hitler’s Hangman
The French quasi-novel HHhH, by Laurent Binet, tells the tale of assassinated Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich while wondering whether it need be retold
Marjorie Ingall
How Not To Read Aloud to Kids
Want to make your children hate books forever? Here are some tips to keep them from reading—or, for book-loving parents, pitfalls to avoid
Theater — Judith Miller
Gore Vidal’s Judenrein Politics
A Broadway revival of 1960’s The Best Man reveals a prescient take on presidential politics, but from era before Jewish issues played a major role
Food — Joan Nathan
A Taste of the Jewish South
Jewish food festivals across the South offer a regional twist on traditional recipes—and the best place to find corned beef in barbecue country
Stay Out of It
On same-sex marriage, Orthodox Jews should keep the religious and civil separate—as they do on other issues
The Riches of Rags
A revival of Yiddish poet H. Leivick’s play reveals a genius at the center of a turn-of-the-century literary scene
Why Pop Art Is Jewish
A Roy Lichtenstein show at the Art Institute of Chicago reveals the movement’s affront to WASPy decorum
The Treblinka Gold Rush
After World War II, Polish peasants hunted for jewels and gold amid the human remains at former Nazi death camps
A Life of Dairy and Davening
Bill Berman is an anomaly among South Florida’s dairymen, few of whom start their day putting on tefillin
When General Grant Expelled the Jews
A reviewer comments, “Supposedly, the drunken, bloodthirsty crook was also an anti-Semite!”
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
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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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