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About a week ago, one of my coworkers came into my office, eager to show me what had just come in the mail: a new calendar. Now, I appreciate a good calendar as much as the next guy – recent…
About a week ago, one of my coworkers came into my office, eager to show me what had just come in the mail: a new calendar. Now, I appreciate a good calendar as much as the next guy – recent…
On Friday, August 23rd, a new documentary about the making and impact of Fiddler on the Roof hits cinemas. On the same day, a new Fiddler recording hits stores, featuring the score performed in Yiddish plus eleven rarely heard songs…
The Syrian refugee crisis raises questions of when it is appropriate to employ the memory of the Holocaust in current political debate.
David Levy reviews the new film by Jake Witzenfeld, screening in New York as part of The Other Israel Film Festival.
The news of Leonard Nimoy's passing hit me unexpectedly hard today, so I wanted to take a minute to examine why.
USY, the youth group of the Conservative Movement, has long had policies demanding that kids in regional and international leadership positions follow particular standards. Three of these standards have always risen to the top of the list of those that…
originally published on CastAlbums.org On the surface, Stars of David sounds like a cynical cash-grab show: a small-cast revue based on journalist Abigail Pogrebin’s 2005 collection of interviews with prominent Jewish Americans sounds like it was designed to tour the…
Last year, the Jewish community fell all over itself to merchandise the intersection of Hanukkah and Thanksgiving, but we all know that outside this special exception, the organized community tends to look down at the mixing of Jewish holidays and…
Last February, I shared a link right here on Jewschool to a Craigslist ad advertising for models for a “Naughty Jewish Boys” calendar. I was so tickled by the idea when I saw it on my friend Duncan Pflaster‘s Facebook…
Presented without commentary, a post from Craigslist: Seeking Jewish men to model for a “Naughty Jewish Boys” calendar. Intended as an alternative to the emasculating “Nice Jewish Boys” calendar currently out, this will show the sexy side of Judaism. Seeking…