By Adam Langer
By the time I moved out of Chicago, the place had lost a good deal of its relevance for me. I had come to know
Myron & Phil best as the restaurant just west of the storage facility where I kept most of the junk I thought I would need for my move out east. As a new, not-entirely-devout pescetarian married to a hardcore vegetarian, I had little need for a place that did its biggest business in steaks, ribs and a famed relish tray that came with three big scoops of chopped liver.
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By Adam Langer
Maurice Sendak’s final work, ‘My Brother’s Book,’ is an almost unbearably poignant love song. It pays tribute to all the beauty he would soon be leaving behind.
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By Adam Langer
Emily Raboteau writes about searching for a promised land. She and Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts discuss what that quest means for blacks and Jews — in Harlem, Israel and worldwide.
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By Adam Langer
Patrizia von Brandenstein has worked on three David Mamet projects. Although she’s a secular lefty and he’s a devout Republican, they get along famously.
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By Adam Langer
Arun Chaudhary, the White House’s first videographer, chats about chronicling the Obama years and all those White House seders he attended.
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Cleveland Kidnapping, Elizabeth Smart and Us
Tracing the Jewish Origins of the Holy Ghost
Magen Tzedek, Ethical Kosher Seal, Stalled Amid Orthodox Opposition
Forced Out by Nazis, Grandmother Returns With Family to Germany
Baby Boomers’ Rocky Road to Jewish Love
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