Jon Stewart breaks out his inner Yentl on ‘Colbert’ while encouraging people to vote
The right deserves its share of the blame and more for the rise of Trump. But certain icons on the left lowered our cultural defenses and also helped make him possible.
Later, Zoe Saldana remembered Anton Yelchin
The bearded comedian is rubbing pig bellies and ribbing Trump, that’s what
The ‘Late Night’ host went into full ‘Fiddler’ mode in a clever sketch Tuesday night
As the greatest exemplar of a person of faith in America today, the liberal Catholic host of ‘The Late Show’ is the best thing for Jews since lox
The Daily Show host plugs his new film Rosewater on The Colbert Report
Homeland star announces plans to run for Israeli office on Colbert Report
Here’s what we imagine their on-camera conversation might look like
The problem with our politics isn’t the collapse of left or right; it’s our inability to think rigorously about the challenges we face
Plus an on-screen shout out to the Scroll
Blesses couple during Stephen Colbert’s on-air ‘shutdown wedding’ ceremony
By helping gay kids, synagogues and Jewish schools can make the community better for all of us
Sendak and Roth each add their own bon mot
A few more notes on the late illustrator Sendak
More palmettos than Jews!
Occupy Wall Street protesters insist their movement echoes this year’s Arab revolutions. A better analogue is the Tel Aviv tent-city protests.
Robert Pinsky’s career-spanning Selected Poems highlights his movement from meditative formalist to Whitmanesque bard
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