The Jewish Daily Backward

October 31, 2010

Ultimately, whatever your feelings about intermarriage, the Forward's kvelling over Clinton lover, Mezvinsky is like the TMZ of wedding announcements. "Look, something is happening that is completely mundane and uninteresting--but it's being done by someone famous!"

I Was Anne Frank for Halloween

Anna Breslaw

October 29, 2010

Culture

39

Need a last minute Halloween costume? Here's what you need to dress up like Anne Frank this year.

One on Juan

jewdar

October 29, 2010

Culture, News

2

Jewdar weighs in on the ol' Juan Williams controversy.

Apatow, Silverman & Lohan Crack Jokes for AJWS 25th Gala

Jonathan Poritsky

October 29, 2010

Culture

Judd Apatow and friends premiered a comic PSA for the American Jewish World Service at a gala in New York City last night.

Heeb Neurotic Weighs in: I Can’t Eat Challah so Sue Me

Heeb

October 28, 2010

Culture

Yeah I can't eat gluten. But, I refuse to be That Guest who is also a Pain in the Ass—the one who whimpers and whines, “I can’t eat this, or that, and the other thing that is for SURE poisonous. Say, do you have some FRUIT?”

Fox News Annoints Liberal Policy with Nazi Epithet

Noam Gonick

October 27, 2010

Culture

4

This is what happens when we Jews allow the control of the media to slip between our dirty fingers.

Gossip Girl Must Die

Heeb

October 26, 2010

Culture

4

Every Monday night, when I watch Gossip Girl, I ask myself isn't there something better I should be doing with my life? Like writing about how awful this show is?

Links for Hot Chix to Learn Torah With

Bernard Mendelbaum

October 22, 2010

Culture, News

No co-ed Torah study on Craig's List, hipsters love grammar, bat mitzvah junkie.

Chosen Film: The Taqwacores

Rich Wasserman

October 20, 2010

Culture

A new film explores the underground punk scene in a house full of Muslims.

Chosen Books: An Interview with Gal Beckerman

Jonathan Poritsky

October 18, 2010

Culture

The author of When They Come for Us, We'll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry stops by to chat about his book, the USSR and the Jewish political establishment.