BoingBoing’s Xeni Jardin selected the image above to accompany this post featuring a Flickr photoset of Unfortunate Childrens Books. I’m assuming some reader took offense

            Banksy, the UK street artist who recently earned repute for sneaking his own art onto the walls of several NYC art

A7 reports, Another bomb hoax protesting the expulsion from Gush Katif was carried out in Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon. As in previous incidents, a suspicious

AFP reports, An Israeli settler-soldier who shot dead three passengers on a bus in an argument over the imminent pullout from the Gaza Strip was

Julian Dibbell writes, OK, you’re hip, but face it: Hasidic Jews are hipper. They moved to Williamsburg before you did, they were into Kabbalah before

Haaretz reports, Israel’s regime is one of the most corrupt and least efficient in the Western world. In fact, the only developed country considered more

In anticipation of the upcoming Jewish edition of The Big Quiz Thing mentioned in our previous blurb on the The Howl! Festival, Steven I. offers

SVARA, “a queer yeshiva dedicated to the serious study of Talmud,” has announced its plans to offer Elul workshops for the LGBT community in three

August 21-28 brings ’round the annual Howl! Festival of East Village Arts. Billed as “Eight days of countercultural euphoria,” the festival will play host to

A smattering of flattery in a recent NY Times meta-review of books about Bruce Springsteen has prompted the “all-American” rocker to issue a response, demythologizing