What’s Wrong With You: To Be or Not To Be a Jew, Thanksgiving Edition Judith Basya November 19, 2012 Advice, Culture 8 How Jewish is Jewish, and how kosher is kosher? Questions to ponder while your turkey bakes.
RIP Bernard Lansky, The Man Who Dressed Elvis RSS November 15, 2012 Culture, History, Music 2 Bernard Lansky died today at age 85. He leaves behind a legacy of making Rock and Roll look cool.
Get Acquainted with Julian Tepper’s Balls Julian Tepper November 14, 2012 Books, Culture, Fiction What happens when a twenty-something literary child of Woody Allen meets a captivating therapist who diagnoses every trauma as 9/11 PTSD? The one thing that's never supposed to.... Read an excerpt from Balls, Julian Tepper's debut.
Gary Shteyngart was “Tortured” at Hebrew School (According to his Dachshund) RSS November 9, 2012 Books, Culture, Shtick "Hasn't Gary suffered enough?" asks his faithful canine ahead of a scheduled Shteyngart roast at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
Join Heeb for a Special Screening of A BOTTLE IN THE GAZA SEA Heeb November 6, 2012 Culture, events, Film Spend this Saturday night soaking up award-wining cinema with Heeb
Two Last Minute Election-Day Opinions From Blowhards SASS November 6, 2012 Culture, Politics This election day, two unsolicited pieces of advice for you undecided voters out there.
Whats Wrong With You: Barmitt Obamney vs. Mirack Rombama, Polygamy, Relief Judith Basya November 5, 2012 Advice, Culture If you can't decide whom to vote for try getting drunk.... advice for those times when things that are supposed to feel good don't.
Five Things I Learned at my First Anti-Zionist Conference Jayson Littman November 5, 2012 Culture, First Person, Israel, News 13 Pinkwashing, Sleeping Celebs, and the failure of the "50-state solution" at the Russell Tribunal on Palestine.
Disney’s Next Princess – When’s Our Turn? RSS November 2, 2012 Culture, Shtick, Urban Kvetch 4 In light of Disney's latest addition to its roster of princesses, we have a few suggestions.
This Election, Call Your Zeyde RSS November 1, 2012 Culture, Music, Politics 4 The latest from the makers of the Great Schlep.
ABC Bets On Israeli “Tribes” As Its New Hit Sitcom RSS October 31, 2012 Culture, TV 1 Get ready for the network debut of an Israeli sitcom smash.
Food Review: Shelsky’s Smoked Fish Jesse Reing October 31, 2012 Food 5 We took a readers' recommendation, and put our taste buds (and arteries) on the line at Shelsky's Smoked Fish.