Alan Veingrad
Meet Your New Jew Hall of Famers
A wrestler, a judo fighter, and, yeah, some coaches
Ex-Footballer Now Motivational Jew
Alan Veingrad inducted into National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
Jewish Centurions vs. Rome
Street performers who pose for tourists by the Colosseum battle city authorities
The Napkin Artist
Remembering Yiddishist, linguistics scholar, Holocaust survivor, and painter Edward Stankiewicz, who died this year
The Mideast Crack-Up
Robert Worth, David Goldman, Edward Luttwak, Amos Harel, Nathan Thrall, and Lee Smith on the new Arab map
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John Kerry’s Silly Play
By Lee Smith — The secretary of state prattles about imaginary treaties while the Arab world is engulfed by a Sunni-Shia civil warDumb and Dumber
By David P. Goldman — How neocons and Obama liberals have created catastrophe by consensus in the Middle EastThe Mideast Crack-Up
By David Samuels — Robert Worth, David Goldman, Edward Luttwak, Amos Harel, Nathan Thrall, and Lee Smith on the new Arab mapNew York Rabbi’s Awful Award
By Jeremy Menchik — Why is a Jewish group dedicated to tolerance honoring a politician who has failed to support religious minorities?A Growing Fear in France
By Clémence Boulouque — As political and financial crises deepen in Western Europe, French Jewry is facing a familiar test
Aussie Jewish Elders React to 'Gangnam Style'
By Elissa Goldstein — "Let them dance, let them sing—but don’t make wars."
Happy Birthday, Mr. Kissinger
By Gil Troy — The influential former secretary of state—courtier, careerist, proud American, conflicted Jew—turns 90
Looking for Rabbi Versed in Dark Talmudic Arts
By Adam Chandler — The beginning to the world's best Craigslist ad?
Religious Labor
By Elliott Horowitz — Israeli society debates the value of Haredi jobs, but Patrick Leigh Fermor saw the ultra-Orthodox hard at work
Ed Koch’s Catholic Send-off
By Jonathan R. Cohen — The former mayor, who had a deep relationship with Catholicism, will be memorialized in a Mass at St. Patrick's
When Berlin Meant Business
By Vox Tablet — Berlin was once home to 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses. A historian is now obsessively reconstructing their demise.
Hating Gwyneth Paltrow
By Rachel Shukert — You may think you know where this column is going. You’d be wrong.
At Home With a Jewish Psychic
By Tracy Levy — Video: Astrologer Jessica Lanyadoo’s home reflects her mixed heritage—and wide-ranging spirituality
Who Can Follow These Rules?
By Adam Kirsch — This week’s Talmud reading prompts strikingly contemporary questions about observance and belief
By July, The Three Biggest U.S. Cities Will Have Jewish Mayors
By Adam Chandler — Los Angeles just elected its first Jewish mayor
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When Berlin Meant Business
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