Is the Israeli soccer team cursed?
The documentary “Common Goal” chronicles the promise and aggravation of Israel’s soccer team, whose fortunes have mirrored that of Israel itself.
Ady Barkan will not go quietly
I challenge you to see Nicholas Bruckman’s new movie about Ady Barkan and not cry.
In the heart of whiskey country, this rabbi puts the bourbon into suburban
Chaim Litvin’s family started out in the kosher certification business. But now his picture is the one appears on the bourbon label.
Mark Bittman is calling for a revolution
The cookbook writer and food journalist’s latest book, ‘Animal, Vegetable, Junk,” calls human food habits “suicidal.”
The dangerous hate movement we need to talk about
Misogyny is a terrorist ideology that is every bit as dangerous and far more pervasive than far-right extremism.
What British antisemitism on the left can teach us
Comic David Baddiel takes bigots to task in ‘Jews Don’t Count.’
Why I hate this Presidents Day — and all others
There is no federal Presidents Day holiday, but Dan Friedman explains why he hates it anyway.
Why that bowl of chicken soup could be deadly — and not just for the chicken
A new book chronicles the uphill battle to limit our consumption of salt.
A Gross tale of traveling to Chelm and back
In ‘The Lost Shtetl,’ Max Gross uses Chelm at its best, refulgent in its own idiocy but shining a light on the mores of the current day.
The Nazi soldier who became an English soccer star — with a rabbi’s help
The legendary goalkeeper overcame the fact that he was a captured Nazi prisoner of war to win the hearts of post-War British soccer fans.