If You Build It
"I first went to Israel in 1959 and I have very fond memories of it," Richard Meier tells me from his office in New York City. "I never thought I'd actually have the opportunity to work there."
Thanks to the...
Hebrew Goes Platinum
Yael Naim does in fact have a MacBook Air Notebook, and yes, it was free. Apple gave it to her because she recorded the perfect song to launch its revolutionary laptop. You know the commercial—it's the one in w...
Trouble at the Rosenkrantz Ranch
It was June of 1985, but when Robert Rosenkrantz fired ten bullets into high school classmate Steve Redman, it felt like something out of the Wild West. Twenty-three years later, Rosenkrantz is out of prison. Allen Salkin remembers a murder that grabbed the attention of a California town and the gay community nation-wide.
Hijinx
Comic artist Joe Infurnari gives us Working Girl Golem.
_Mister Lonely_
By Pamela Chelin
In the late '90s, writer/director Harmony Korine (Kids, Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy) was the "it" boy of New York's downtown scene. To escape the spotlight, he moved to London and then to Paris w...
Hijinx
Comic artist Neil Kleid shows readers the truth behind the secret to our success.
Things Fall Apart
It's easy to mistake Etgar Keret for light reading. With Keret, four pages is an epic tale—most of his stories weigh in at five or six paragraphs. But brevity and levity are not the same, and nowhere is this mo...
As Time Goes By
For writer Michael Green, Casablanca was more than just a great film. It was the only thing tying him to a bygone romance with his high school tutor.
Best Femmes Forever
Fanny Brice, Molly Picon and Theda Bara were pioneering Jewish stars of film's Silent and Golden Eras. We imagine them as BFFs in these gorgeous fashion photos by Doron Gild.
RASL Dazzle
The most highly anticipated comic book in years (aside from the sequel to Frank Miller's Dark Knight) doesn't feature superheroes, nor is it published by Marvel or DC. No, the title that's got graphic novel-hea...
Twice Baked
Dave Itzkoff on the two Jewish guys from New Jersey who
created the funniest Asian-American characters in contemporary cinema.
created the funniest Asian-American characters in contemporary cinema.
