Figure Skating to ‘Schindler’s List’ Should be Welcomed

By Zach C. Cohen February 20, 2014

Bloggers made much ado as Julia Lipnitskaia took to the ice in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. It wasn’t because she was one of the best figure skaters in the world at only 15 years old. It wasn’t that in Lipnitskaia Russia had a representative on the rink for the first time in 10…

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5 Great Mustaches…And the Jews Who Wore Them

By Selah Maya Zighelboim November 18, 2013

(X-posted from Texas Hillel’s blog) November means Movember, a month of growing mustaches to bring awareness to prostate cancer and other male cancers. In honor of this, Texas Hillel’s blog presents: Five Great Mustaches… And the Jews Who Wore Them. When comedian Groucho Marx didn’t want to take the time to apply a pasted-on mustache for a vaudeville…

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