Crossposted at WWPD. First, Jews wishing to claim to be no different from other men did so by asserting membership in the majority, in the dominant ethnic group of their land. When this didn’t...
Author - phoebe
More Herzl, less hustle
Just got back from the Hadag Nachash (pardon the double ‘the’) show at Webster Hall. It was odd being at a Birthright event in New York, and a bit disappointing to exit not into Tel Aviv...
Boteach me something useful: Feldman vs. NYU
Cross-posted at WWPD. NYU must have a massive Modern Orthodox population. The huge auditorium at Cooper Union was filled with college-age women in long-enough skirts and guys in kipot. It was the...
“‘Sache que, partout ou il y a de l’argent, il y a des Juifs'”*
Cross-posted at WWPD. The New York Times Magazine “Money” issue profiles a group of Jews who manage to be simultaneously rich, materialistic, and exclusionary on a level even Hasids would...
“2 Days in Paris”
Crossposted at WWPD. What happens when a quintessential New York Jew meets the family of his non-Jewish girlfriend? I have no idea, it’s not as if any movies have been made about such a...
Intermarriage and Gender, II
If the statistics are accurate, American Jewish men are not that much more likely to be married to non-Jews than are American Jewish women. We must then ask why ‘shiksa’ is a household...