Arts and Culture

Appeals to the Outcast: The Bowls Project

By Joanna Steinhardt

Jewlia Eisenberg and Charming Hostess excavate our polytheistic heritage, showing how women found “back channels” for communication that would otherwise have been impossible.

News and Politics

Aboard the Mavi Marmara: An Analysis of Turkish-Israeli Relations

By Medi Nahmiyaz and Nathalie Alyon

Israeli Turkish Jews Nathalie Alyon and Medi Nahmiyaz boarded the Mavi Marmara as official translators. Here they report on what they heard, and explain how and why this old ship became a symbol for the crisis in Turkish-Israeli relations.

Faith and Practice

Interview with Andrew Ramer: Sex, Jews, and Queer Midrash

By Jo Ellen Green Kaiser

Zeek: Do Jews do sex well? Ramer: Sometimes when we say, “we do sex well,” what we mean is that we do sex better than the goyim. That’s anti-Christianism.

Life and Action

Rachael and Adam’s Uber-Rad Wedding!

By Angela Himsel

Three flower fairies, a boar, and 92 degree heat–welcome to my sister’s wedding!

Arts and Culture

Fiction: All Because of Baudelaire

By Menachem Talmi and Translated by Anat Shultz

You don’t know Short-Lou? Never heard of “Two Wheels” Short-Lou? Never saw him down at Hatikva joyriding stolen cars? Man, you surprise me. You really do.

Arts and Culture

Review: Seth Tobocman's Understanding the Crash

How do you make the mortgage crisis and resulting Crash a great read? Get Seth Tobocman to set history to comix.

Arts and Culture

Get Him to the Theater on Time

By Charlie Bertsch

The latest film from Judd Apatow’s camp awkwardly tackles the subject of same-sex romance, while raising interesting questions about its “brother” films’ treatment of ethnicity.

Faith and Practice

The Spirituality of Parenting

By Rabbi Rachel Barenblat

How parenting is a spiritual practice; plus two poems from Barenblat’s mother cycle

Faith and Practice

Eicha for the Oil Spill: A Tisha B'Av for the Earth

By Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Hearing about and seeing footage of the Gulf Oil spill day after day, my heart is drawn to Tisha B’Av, when we mourn the destruction of the ancient Temples in Jerusalem and chant Lamentations, Eicha.