The M.O.T. Heard Round the World
Not since 1945 when Hank Greenberg clinched the American League pennant with a grand slam on the final day of the season, has a more dramatic home run been generated from a Jewish bat. Yesterday, with one swi...
_Indignation_
The intersection between the political and the personal has proved to be the defining theme of late-period Philip Roth. In American Pastoral (1997), the author served up a stinging elegy for '60s-era idealism t...
Meet Alaska’s Yamacaucus
By Sabrina Jaszi Governor Sarah Palin's fervent Christian minions may be the public face of Alaska, but in the state's House of Representatives, a group of Jewish politicians are increasingly casting long shado...
Web Exclusive!
Our nation's capital may have the highest per capita number of white guys in charcoal Brooks Brothers suits, but it's also got a vibrant indigenous scene if you know where to look. So forget that trip you took ...
History Lessons
Unless between the time I'm writing this and a certain mid-January day he decides to tie a bandana around his head, place a buck knife between his teeth, parachute into the hinterlands of northwest Pakistan and...
Not in Long Island Anymore
Jamie Lynn Sigler picks at a roll made of pizza dough at Angeli Caffé in West Hollywood as we discuss her upcoming return to HBO on the fifth season of Entourage. Sigler plays "a version of" herself for three ...
The First Jewish President?
Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman reinvented the scoundrel city. Is America up next? Dayvid Figler reports.
When Will David Blaine Disappear?
Yesterday, publicity whore/endurance challenger and sort-of-magician David Blaine finished his dive of death, which involved hanging upside down from a cable for three days in New York's Central Park, non-stop....
Freshkills: The _Heeb_ Interview
By Jay Diamond Brooklyn's Freshkills' menacing sound reaches back to the days when indie rock largely consisted of disturbed weirdos creating violent racket. On their second full-length, front man Zachary Lip...
King for a Day
I don't know what's worse, hearing Ahmadinejad's sound bites get international exposure at the UN or seeing Larry King pander to his nonsense. At 74, the crotchety interviewer just sat there with nothing combat...
Beardly Legal
Jews, Muslims and Nazarenes have banded together to sue a Washington D.C. fire department over its new ban on beards, which is reportedly being instated for safety reasons.Personally, I think if these guys want...
