Writing this review in the middle of Passover, one would think a movie about yet even more Matzo is more of an American nightmare than an American dream. However, while all my meals this week involve...
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If Bernie Sanders becomes President…
I just realized something. If Bernie Sanders gets elected President, will that be the first time in history that a black family moves out of a house and a Jewish one moves in? Absent gentrification...
The Murray Hill Song: A Piece of Jewish New York History
The Lower East Side of Manhattan will always be remembered as a place of Jewish beginnings in contemporary American Jewish culture. Escaping from Czarist pogroms, harsh anti-Semitism and stifling...
South Williamsburg, NY: Hassids vs. Hipster Hotties on Bikes
What happens when two wildly divergent communities find themselves living in uncomfortably close proximity to each other? As rents and the cost of living in Manhattan have skyrocketed over the last...