Bronner Defends NYT Jerusalem Tenure
Ethan Bronner, the departing New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief, engaged his critics yesterday in a panel discussion at the annual Jewish Funders Network conference at the Tel Aviv Hilton. Despite...
View ArticleSundown: Russell’s Ark
• Russell Crowe is Noah (dir. Darren Aronofsky). [Deadline New York] • Aaron David Miller cuts through the myths of how and why Washington policy approaches Israel. [FP] • Ari Shavit switches to the...
View ArticleLightning Rod
In May 2010, just as the relationship between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was moving from chilly to frozen over the announcement of new settlement construction...
View ArticleBig Band Theory
Growing up in Tel Aviv, pianist Alon Yavnai was exposed to a range of musical traditions including Middle Eastern, jazz, and Latin (his mother is Argentine). Since then, the Grammy-winner has...
View ArticleSales Figures
Was I a “glutton for punishment”? That’s what Mary McCarthy called theatergoers who subjected themselves to plays she called “sadistic fantasies in realistic disguise.” Mary McCarthy hated Death of a...
View ArticleBlackout in Tehran
Last Monday, Iranian authorities abruptly called off a celebration planned for A Separation, the Iranian movie directed by Asghar Farhadi that a month earlier won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film,...
View ArticleDaybreak: Hamas Still Plots Kidnappings
• There are still Shalit-style kidnappings and terror attacks being hatched; they are still being hatched by Hamas; only now, Hamas has Sinai to operate freely out of. [Haaretz] • After a 30-hour,...
View ArticleWelcome to New York City, Tim Tebow!
Though yesterday was not without its confusions, by the end it was clear: Tim Tebow—a conspicuous born-again Christian whose extremely unorthodox quarterbacking style produced an extremely improbable...
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Debate Continues to Rage Over ‘Zionist B.D.S.’
Blind item: WHICH “American guest” was recently hosted by a “senior Israeli official” for a “late-night chat,” according to Haaretz’ Ari Shavit? … The official spelled out Israel’s genuine fears of an...
View ArticleMr. Coffee
Each week, we select the most interesting Jewish obituary. Today, it’s that of Samuel Glazer, who died last week at 89. He was one of two impresarios of Mr. Coffee, both a highly successful product by...
View ArticleMarion Barry on Ghettos, New and Old
“When the Jews were being herded into ghettos of Poland, nobody minded that term,” Barry said in an interview Thursday, explaining his remark about Ward 8 being a ghetto. “They said, ‘this is a Jewish...
View ArticleAnshe Kanesses Meets Its Maker
Last month, Rachel Shteir reported in Tablet Magazine that the century-old Chicago building formerly home to Anshe Kanesses, a prominent and gorgeous Russian Jewish synagogue that at various times...
View ArticleSundown: Messianic Jews Hosted Santorum
• Rick Santorum spoke at the annual messianic Jews convention. But don’t worry it was like 20 years ago. Oh no wait it was 2010. [Politico] • A report points out the fairly obvious fact that Prime...
View ArticleJ Street’s Forerunner
On March 10, 1973, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir packed a Brandeis University auditorium with almost a thousand people, some spoiling for a fight. The previous week, multiple brawls had broken out...
View ArticlePitch Perfect
Mad Men returns Sunday for its fifth season, and as a creative director in advertising, I can’t wait. America’s obsession with sexy Don Draper has helped make people who do what I do infinitely more...
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Google and the Golem
This is Part 8 of The Modern Golem, a serialized graphic novella. Click here to read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, and Part 7. Continue reading: The view from here
View ArticleJew Pop
By the time Mad Men, Matthew Weiner’s seminal dissertation on the quiet desperation of the 1960s-era White American Male, has its Season Five premiere on Sunday night, Don Draper and his discontents...
View ArticleDaybreak: ‘Goldstone 2′ on the Settlements?
• Over American objection, the U.N. Human Rights Council is sending a fact-finding mission to probe the effects of Israeli settlements on the Palestinians (including in East Jerusalem). Some right-wing...
View ArticleThe Jewish Bambi
“Lost Books” is a weekly series highlighting forgotten books through the prism of Tablet Magazine’s and Nextbook.org’s archives. So blow the dust off the cover, and begin! Austrian writer Felix Salten...
View ArticleWhich Jew Will Draper Seduce?
In Season 1, it was department store heiress Rachel Menken Katz. In Season 2 (the season that isn’t very good), it was Bobbie Barrett, the wife and manager of the comedian. And, of course, last season,...
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