New, bizarre (and sometimes gross) ‘Data’ about the Jewishness of ‘Star Trek’
In ‘Fan Fiction,’ Brett Spiner — who played Data on ‘Star Trek’ — mixes autobiography with fantasy, and a ghostly appearance by Captain Picard.
Dr. Seuss + Ray Bradbury + Jewish kung-fu + Nazi satire = the mixed-up files of Israeli sci-fi writer Lavie Tidhar
Lavie Tidhar, author of “A Man Lies Dreaming,” “The Violent Century” and “Escapement,” may be the most prolific writer you’ve never heard of.
70 years after U.N. convention, a new — and old — way to visualize refugee journeys
We are a people whose foundational story is about being refugees, and whose modern experience is about many forcible displacements.
How Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg created history’s most dangerous golem
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination
This year, Rosh Hashanah comes in a can
Honey wine has long been thought of as a treacly substance with notes of Viking, but cyser is now flourishing across America.
We tried six kinds of cyser — and have recovered sufficiently to write about them
The cysers run the gamut from those featuring simply apple and honey to those including mangos, habañero peppers and Sri Lankan cinnamon
One lesbian romcom delivered with a side of Holocaust memories
Shirel Peleg’s “Kiss Me Kosher” isn’t going for actual laughs, and it is too crammed full of incident and gimmicks to be charming.
As antisemitism skyrockets, Britain’s Jews feel their neighbors have abandoned them
Statistics can’t fully convey the massive surge in anti-Jewish behavior in Britain over the past two weeks. The Community Security Trust, an organization that monitors and fights antisemitism in the U.K., officially noted a growth of 500% in antisemitic incidents comparing May 8-18 to the similar period before.
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.