Woody Allen
And More, Much More Than This, Ronan Farrow Will Do It His Way
Do the Woody Allen-family paternity revelations signal the end of the nebbishy übermensch?
D.C. Synagogue Hosts Displaced Federal Workers
Plus Israel asks U.N. to recognize Yom Kippur, and more in the news
It’s Woody Allen’s Fault
Noah Baumbach’s new Frances Ha shows the fate of a generation enamored of the nebbishy narcissist
Photo of the Day (and 1977)
A photographer sets up film stills at their original locations
Allan Sherman’s Last Laugh
A thorough new biography chronicles the rise and fall of the big, Jewish self-destructive funnyman
An Interview With ‘Girls’ Star Alex Karpovsky
The actor/writer/director talks to Jewcy about anxiety and Hebrew School
Solondz’s Schlubs
The funny, sad Dark Horse adds a creepy loser in love to the director’s catalog of misanthropes
How a British Museum Curator Discovered Noah’s Ark Would Have Been Round
Irving Finkel, an expert on ancient Mesopotamia, decodes a Babylonian tablet and traces its path to the Book of Genesis
After the Holocaust, the Dutch Tried To Collect Past Due Taxes From Survivors
How one shy, whistle-blowing intern in an Amsterdam archive uncovered a travesty that insulted a decimated community
Centuries Ago, Jews Were Farmers Like Everybody Else. Why Did They Leave the Fields?
Two economists argue that literacy, not laws forbidding land ownership, created a small, widely dispersed and highly skilled minority
- Debating the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Demands Empathy, Not Just History
- Remembering Estelle Getty, Who Would Have Turned 91 Today
- Gigantic Replica of Solomon’s Temple Opens in Brazil
- Graphic Novelist Liana Finck on Yiddish Letters, Teen Angst, and Becoming a Book Person
