Willie Mays
A Rabbinic League of Their Own
Why one yeshiva principal collects baseballs signed by Talmud scholars instead of professional athletes
Branca, of Famed Homer, Has Jewish Heritage
Pitcher gave up the Shot Heard ‘Round the World
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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Hannah Arendt, Guilty Pleasure
By J. Hoberman — Thrill to the Jewish Philosopher Queen as she does battle with boring Nazis, The New Yorker, and MossadA Growing Fear in France
By Clémence Boulouque — As political and financial crises deepen in Western Europe, French Jewry is facing a familiar testOur Arrested Development
By Liel Leibovitz — The Bluths, returning this weekend for a fourth season, are the Jewish world’s archetypal familyJohn 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 warHappy Birthday, Mr. Kissinger
By Gil Troy — The influential former secretary of state—courtier, careerist, proud American, conflicted Jew—turns 90
Dumb and Dumber
The Mideast Crack-Up
Religious Labor
Glenn Greenwald Terrorizes Logic
Hating Gwyneth Paltrow
Go Superfreak!
New York Rabbi’s Awful Award
Cutting Family Ties
When Berlin Meant Business
Ed Koch’s Catholic Send-off
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When Berlin Meant Business
Berlin was once home to 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses. A historian is now obsessively reconstructing their demise.
In Praise of Dairy Restaurants
A visit to B&H Restaurant on Second Avenue brings back memories of milchig establishments of yore
Curse of the Survivor
Singer Vera Gran was haunted by allegations of Nazi collaboration. A new book asks if survival made her guilty.


