“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 international development and real estate firm Berggruen Holdings, Meier got his opportunity as Tel Aviv...

Who
Tony Curtis
His game
Bernie Schwartz's parents came to the US from Satmar because it was the land of opportunity. Changing his name to Tony Curtis, he became one of the hottest commodities in Hollywood in the 1950's, earning an Oscar nod and screen time with some of Tinseltown's biggest names (including a spot...

Gilles Bensimon captures six of the most beautiful Jewish women in the world in this special pull-out calendar for the year 5769.

What do you get when you toss Godzilla, Popeye, Dante, Zappa, Picasso, Kirby, Sun Ra and Philip K. Dick into a pot and stir? A mad brew that is artist Gary Panter’s outrageous oeuvre. Panter, a prolific painter and the father of punk comix, is one of the most influential artists alive, period. Brooklyn-based publisher,...

Comic artist Joe Infurnari gives us Working Girl Golem.

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 which a jaunty piano introduces a fragile female voice with a slight accent singing about a new...

The first time rock journalist Steve Bloom sat down with James Brown, the Godfather of Soul reamed his ass. That was before Brown found out that Bloom was a Jew.

There is no way David Berman could have known the path he would set himself on in merely naming his band. As a young man at the University of Virginia, Berman began writing his songs: soliloquies left on friends’ answering machines, songs steeped in abstruse histories and personal revelations. Naming his band the Silver Jews,...

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.

When Montreal-based artist Pat Hamou came across an old lineup photo of Murder Inc. hitman Abe “Kid Twist” Reles in an old New York Daily News, he was mesmerized. He began researching figures from the golden era of Jewish organized crime in New York—”beyond the Bugsy Siegels and the Meyer Lanskys… [to] those minor players...