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Rabbi Hillel, the Tube, and Reading the Comments – A Jew in the Motherland

By Jonathan Katz | January 21, 2015

I usually read, but do not respond to, the comment threads on my articles for this publication and others. Why, then, do I read them, despite my editor’s adamant suggestions not to? To a certain extent, I have a perverse pride in rankling ideologues of all stripes (and for those of you critical of my…

Hey You, With the Beard, Are You a Jew?

By H. B. Rubin | November 3, 2012

As a previous summer resident of Trendyville, Brooklyn, the running joke throughout my stay revolved around the aesthetically similar but culturally dichotomous comparisons of the facial hair of secular and religious men. A clearer way to say this? The proliferation of Hasid vs. Hipster hirsute jokes. And let me tell you, they were (and are)…