A ‘Top Chef’ star takes on Tu B’Shevat
| 1:00 PM Jan 28, 2010
Growing up in Atlanta, Eli Kirshtein was more interested in pork than in pomegranate, figs, and other staples of Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish celebration of nature and trees. In fact, Kirshtein, who appeared on the recent season of the Bravo reality show Top Chef—he finished fifth—had little idea that Tu B’Shevat existed until Tablet Magazine ...
A haftorah of curses and consequence
| 7:00 AM Jan 15, 2010
“This situation,” the man said, “is gonna be indescribable. You can’t even describe the situation that you’re about to get into the situation.”
Confused? You must be among the fortunate few who’ve managed to miss the pop-culture leviathan known as Jersey Shore, a reality show that follows a tribe of young, libidinal coxcombs and slatterns as ...
Gosselin tells parenting blog he loves Jews, shops at Zabar’s
| 10:15 AM Oct 13, 2009
ParentDish blogger Susan Avery interviewed reality-TV star-cum-cad Jon Gosselin last week, and we here present a selection from that interview, offered with no comment beyond ParentDish’s headline, “Jon Gosselin Loves His Kids, His Girlfriend and the Jews.” Because, really, what else is there to say?
PD: Let’s try a happy topic. What are your plans for ...
Chef Leventhal pigs out on season premiere
| 12:02 PM Aug 20, 2009
Season Six of Bravo’s cooking-competition show Top Chef, which premiered last night, has the potential to be the Jew-heaviest season yet (although in this regard it faces stiff competition from last season, which was won by one Hosea Rosenberg). Based on the name game alone, we count, to varying degrees of certainty (we’re pretty sure ...
Hunky Antonio Sabato Jr. looks for love on TV, with help from his mother
| 7:00 AM Aug 13, 2009
What kind of person would go on a reality dating show with his mother in tow, giving every potential love connection the once-over? A nice Jewish boy, of course—one like Antonio Sabato Jr., the Italian-born heartthrob best known for gracing a 90-foot Times Square billboard wearing only his Calvin Klein briefs and a sultry half-smile.
Sam Lipsyte’s novel The Ask and Noah Baumbach’s movie Greenberg breathe new life into the figure of the shlemiel
Salo trades his horse for a foul-mouthed Jewess
Though weak with hunger, Salo takes a stand
On the eve of the Oscars, an endorsement of ‘The White Ribbon’
A new documentary discusses the legacy of a Nazi filmmaker with his heirs
The anti-‘Edge of Darkness’ email your relatives are forwarding
There are more similarities between Jewish music and Jewish food than meets the ear
At 86, blind and housebound, Fugs frontman Tuli Kupferberg is still dispensing crass words of wisdom
Two bands cultivate the ‘Afro-Judaic’ aesthetic
Making the web’s greatest Hanukkah film
The Fox cult hit ‘Glee’ is about outcasts and Broadway—so naturally it offers a Jewish storyline
Wallace Shawn on being Jewish—onscreen and off
At 50, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Beth Sholom synagogue still glimmers—leaks and all
While trying on new artistic hat, artist develops series of paper coats
A new exhibition explores the overlapping worlds of Christian and Jewish art in medieval Spain
How Russian-Jewish émigrés are changing the face of competitive ballroom dance
How a latter-day vaudevillian from Kansas City got himself to speak perfect Yiddish
As it progressed, the playwright’s autobiographical trilogy grew more dark—and more true
