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Today in New Voices, Geoffrey Edelstein reviews “Bad for Jews,” a new book about Jewish celebrities by Scott Sherman, a “Colbert Report” staff writer. The book has illustrations of each celebrity it deals with by New Yorker cartoonist Andy Friedman. If you go read the review, you’ll see a great likeness of Seth Rogen. The…
My three-week academic study trip to Poland withnine other graduate students set off on Thursday, June 30. We were going, as students of history and the Holocaust, to look at modern issues concerning Jewish-Polish relations. We arrived in Krakow, smack in the middle of the Jewish Culture Festival, which as we learned pretty quickly, is…
The realization that my office is a five-minute walk from Zuccotti Park, home base of Occupy Wall Street, combined with my excitement about the plan that was announced yesterday to hold Kol Nidrei in the park convinced me to spend my morning among the protesters. There’s plenty you can read about Occupy Wall Street out…
The hot new book to have on your coffee table during the High Holidays this year is “Bad for Jews” by Scott Sherman, a hilarious account of which Jewish celebrities are bad, worse and the worst for the Jewish image. Clear away the Ansel Adams books and old copies of Reform Judaism Magazine and make room for the funniest book of the season. Sherman is a staff writer on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” so expect great jokes and relevant comedy that is relevant to everyone from boychick to bubbe. So he delivers, but then goes on to make his writing appealing to all ages, which is a pretty good value for $13.99. The book takes 50 Jewish celebrities and discusses why they are great or not so great for the Jews.