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Winner gets a free Nextbook Press book appropriate to his or her comment (provided he or she emails me at mtracy@tabletmag.com with his or her mailing address).
I could rebut most of the commenters’ objections to my David Brooks-inspired list of what is haimish and what is not. (Oh, and for the record, it was inspired not only by Lenny Bruce’s routine but also by Norman Mailer’s essay on hip.) However, “artcohn” has my number, writing, “Neither the Upper West Side, nor the Upper East Side of Manhattan are haimish. Bensonhurst and Flatbush in Brooklyn, and Kew Gardens Hills and Rego Park in Queens are haimish.”
He is completely right. This was horribly myopic of me. I apologize. (Seriously.) “artcohn” gets a copy of Sherwin B. Nuland’s Maimonides biography, because he is wise; and I get one, too, that it may teach me wisdom and humility.
Is Obama Vulnerable on the Israel Issue?
New ad campaign, pegged to special N.Y. election, suggests he is
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When General Grant Expelled the Jews
The End of the Jewish Left
Political theorist Michael Walzer and others argue about the death of the century-long Jewish-Leftist alliance
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.
