We know that for a certain generation of young Jewish men, Ms. Portman was the n'est plus ultra of Jewish sex symbols. But retiring to be a stay at home mom? That's just too much!
There is a token popular Jew in every cultural field. There's Author Jew, Movie Jew, Music Jew, TV Jew. They have their place, somewhere between non-threatening folklore and bittersweet nostalgia.
It’s an unpredictable twist, bubbelah. That you will find images of these curly-haired, big-nosed women getting humped (and kind of hackneyedly complaining about it) the ultimate object of erotic devastation.
He's a Kryptonian who crashed on Earth, and was raised by Jonathan and Martha Kent--good people, salt of the Earth, and normally, good Americans, but there does seem to be one violation of American law they helped facilitate.
Lots of Nazis fled to South America after the war, especially the more complicit ones. I just didn't expect to be meeting one on the second day of my travels.
Alyson Gerber recently completed her debut young adult novel Gracie Garber Loves Goys. She is earning an MFA at The New School in Writing for Children.