Why the Syrian Refugee Crisis Encourages Me to Talk about My Least Favorite Subject
The Syrian refugee crisis raises questions of when it is appropriate to employ the memory of the Holocaust in current political debate.
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Oriented: New Documentary about Gay Palestinians in Tel Aviv
David Levy reviews the new film by Jake Witzenfeld, screening in New York as part of The Other Israel Film Festival.
Leonard Nimoy: An Appreciation.
The news of Leonard Nimoy's passing hit me unexpectedly hard today, so I wanted to take a minute to examine why.
USY Changes Expectations for Youth Leaders
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…
STARS OF DAVID sing in new recording
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…
December Without Drama
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…
Meet the Man Behind The Men of the Naughty Jewish Boys Calendar
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…
Naughty Jewish Boys
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…
Handle With Care: A Jewish Play Born from an Interfaith Marriage
When I first skimmed the press release for Handle With Care, a play currently running off-Broadway in the theater that used to house Old Jews Telling Jokes, I thought I had the whole thing figured out in advance: a non-Jewish…
Where Hipster Brooklyn and Youth Group Nostalgia Meet
A couple of weeks ago, an email came over the Jewschool contributors’ listserv asking if anyone wanted to cover a SermonSlam taking place in my neighborhood. As someone who has enjoyed other kinds of slams in the past (poetry, story,…