Lizzy Caplan: The _Heeb_ Interview
by Malina Saval
CBS will announce it's fall lineup tomorrow and we've got our fingers crossed that "_The Class_,":http://www.cbs.com/primetime/the_class/about.shtml starring Lizzy Caplan, will be picked up. ...
What We Can Learn From Akon
By now, you've heard about Verizon Wireless pulling its sponsorship from the Gwen Stefani tour because her opening act, Akon, simulated some truly nasty dirty dancing on stage with a Trinidadian girl in front o...
Viva La Sarkozy?
We all know that France holds one of the more troubled Jewish populations in the Western world (as seen "here":http://www.ejpress.org/article/16405, "here":http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20070419-0943...
Welcome to the Family
Michael Chabon, recently labeled "anti-Semitic":http://www.jossip.com/gossip/michael-chabon/jewish-writer-michael-chabon-puts-on-a-happy-punim-after-being-branded-an-antisemitic-20070503.php by _The New York Po...
Miss America Flip-Flops
I've long wondered what it is that the reigning Miss America does once her bouquet of roses wilts and the other contestants have gone home to their trailers and burger-flipping boyfriends. I always kind of pic...
Up Against the Wal
What to do when reports circulate that 46 percent of the children of your employees are uninsured or on Medicaid? Hire the guy who told Michael Dukakis to ride around in a tank to do your PR. Jeffrey Goldberg o...
Captaining Kirkland
Last you heard, Levi Okunov was helping us "hijack the mitzvah tank.":http://blogs.papermag.com/2006/12/26/hanukah-joy-ride/ Now, he's causing havoc out west dressing "Sally Kirkland":http://perezhilton.com/top...
Epic Trip
Testament, by media theorist and culture critic Doug Rushkoff and Liam Sharp, is serialized as a monthly comic book from DC/Vertigo and then collected into a graphic novel every five or six issues — Testame...
Our Stomachs, Ourselves
"Krazy" Kevin Lipsitz once knew what victory tasted like: kosher pickles. Six years ago, the magazine subscription manager from Staten Island took first place in the Carnegie Deli Annual Pickle Eating Contest b...
Feast or Famine
With the book and now film _Fast Food Nation_, Walmart's recent switch to organic produce, Slow Food restaurants popping up all over the country and what seems to be a growing hunger for "inconvenient truths," ...
SoCalled Klezmer
_(excerpted from original article)_
It sometimes takes audiences a song or two to figure out whether all of this is just one big post-modern joke—SoCalled makes you want to hunt down a Cossack and throw a crea...
Inside the Kabbalah Centre
Raquel Hecker goes inside the Kabbalah Centre in a story of glamour, gossip and the godhead.
