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At 6 a.m., we would awake to the squeaky roar of bulldozers. Opening our eyes, we’d see the hulking machines moving lazily back and forth on the construction site. At first, the only people on the site had been IDF soldiers and demolition crews, along with private security guards. But as time passed, more workers […]
Dybbuk
Favorite Dreidel Made in China, Neighbor’s Sidelocks Coveted, Simon Cowell Unimpressed by Bar Mitzvah Performance
Yuli Gerstel’s “My Terrorist”
Reactions to the Israeli-Hezbollah Prisoner Exchange
Tired
Can Internet Dating Be The Last Refuge of A Scoundrel?
Bugsy Siegel Benny Siegel’s right eye was found 15 feet away from its socket. The previous night Siegel had been sitting on a sofa in his mistress’s Beverly Hills home, flipping through the Los Angeles Times, when a .30 caliber army carbine bullet carried it there. A total of nine shots were fired through a […]
“Wherefore it is not astonishing that with a million Hebrews, mostly Russian, in the city (one quarter of its population), perhaps half the criminals should be of that race….” —New York City Police Commissioner Theodore A. Bingham. Published in an august magazine in September 1908, Commissioner Bingham’s words sent New York’s Jews into a tizzy […]
A Fable