It’s the same story every year – how do you spell Hanukkah? In Hebrew it’s easy – ×—× ×•×›×” – but everything Jewish is easier in Hebrew, especially if you’re in...
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I just finished reading a great and entertaining memoir by Lisa Fineberg Cook, a self-aware, spoiled, very smart and funny Jewish girl from LA who marries a world-traveling educator / adventurer...
An Archaeological Hannukah
Leave it to the colonialist Israel Antiquities Authority (the vaunted IAA) to continue to play a role in the formation and enactment of Israel’s colonial-national historical imagination by...
Eight Books for 8 Days: Would Captain Jack Sparrow be Wed Under...
DAY 1 in AMERICA: Eight candles for eight days, and 8 books. But light the candles, not the books. For day 1, a joyous book of modern day Maccabees. Well, maybe they weren’t Maccabees, but they...