A fellow UChicago grad forwarded me this article calling for a Jewish boycott of France from something called the Israel Hasbara Committee. Someone referring to him- or herself as “A Jew Living...
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“Dai (enough)”
Iris Bahr’s one-woman show, “Dai (enough)” , now playing at the Culture Project in NYC, is rather shocking. After walking around the Village, seeing more hipsters in keffiyehs than...
“Hitler” in Brooklyn
Contrary to how it may seem, I still write for Jewlicious. I also attend grad school, and have yet to fix the computer-internet problem. Combined, these factors do something to explain my absence...
“Where the real people are”
My roommate and I just watched the season premier of “Trading Spouses.” The premise was swapping a Protestant woman from Kentucky with an Orthodox Jewish woman from the Boston suburbs...
Mamet’s “j’accuse”
A fellow Jewlicious blogger pointed me to this review of David Mamet’s The Wicked Son, by Cynthia Ozick. The piece begins with the story of a 13th century French Jew who decided enough of all...
Jewishness, unlike Judaism, not matrilineal
Matthew Yglesias discusses the unlikely politicians who up and turn out to be Jewish, along with the individuals with off-the-charts Jewish-sounding names who turn out not to be. Of course what this...