A Fantasy about the Holocaust

By Elle Mikulincer-Weiss August 19, 2010

Elle Weiss reviews Michelle Lang’s “Lady Lazarus,” which features a title character who leaves pre-war Budapest to fight a Nazi army of imps, demons and werewolves–all to save Eurpoe’s Jews

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Bringing Back the Golden Age

By Alisha Kinman August 1, 2010

Maya Beiser went from the kibbutz to Yale to the soundtracks of big-budget movies. Now she’s released an album with tracks ranging from a cello rendition of Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir” to modern takes on 15th-century Spanish songs. New Voices has the interview

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The Prostitute and the Prophet

By Elle Mikulincer-Weiss May 13, 2010

In “The Prophet’s Wife,” his unfinished work, Milton Steinberg delves into the tortured lives of Hosea and his harlot wife Gomer, brining obscure Biblical figures to life with vivid emotion.

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An American in Lebanon

By Miriam Mogilevsky May 3, 2010

For Joel Chasnoff, a native of the Chicago suburbs, serving in the Israeli Army seemed like a good way to give back to the Jewish state. What followed was a year of inspiration, disillusionment, danger and revelation. Miriam Mogilevsky reviews Chasnoff’s “The 188th Crybaby Brigade.”

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Surrounded by Crazy Jews

By Ben Sales April 26, 2010

Etgar Keret, an acclaimed Israeli author and filmmaker, talks with New Voices about potheads, politics and levitating in love.

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The Jew Revolution

By Ben Sales April 22, 2010

In his “Empowered Judaism,” Elie Kaunfer writes that the independent minyan movement has the power to save American Judaism. But will it become yet another denomination, or will it have the capacity to transform American Jewish life?

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The Story of What We Eat

By Kelly Seeger March 3, 2010

Book review: Jonathan Safran-Foer’s “Eating Animals”

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Translation

By Jessica Simon February 26, 2010

A poem

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As the Spotlight Dims

By Ben Sales February 25, 2010

Aging and the end of a career in Philip Roth’s “The Humbling”

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Split-Shank

By Alisa Ungar-Sargon February 24, 2010

Rich Jews and Me: A short fiction piece about a day in Jewish Pleasantville.

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Lost in the Jewish Suburbs

By Miriam Mogilevsky February 19, 2010

Pondering life, death and God in “A Serious Man”

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Book Review: Rich Cohen’s “Israel is Real”

By Sam Green January 4, 2010

A metaphorical trip through Jewish history

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Hollywood Hearts Holocaust

By Miriam Mogilevsky January 4, 2010

The success of the Shoah movie and what “Inglorious Basterds” is doing to it

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The New Matisyahu

By Alisha Kinman December 21, 2009

A quick look at a few Jewish musicians, all hoping to cross over and be the next big thing.

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