I remember it like it was yesterday—it was a cool autumn afternoon in Brooklyn. I wrapped my arms around my boyfriend, and I wrapped my scarf around my neck. Covered in fabric I felt, for a moment, like anything was possible. Even love. Darn it. Once again I have confused Taylor Alison Swift’s memories with…
Many years ago, I was laboring through my High Holiday sermons, trying to find a contemporary angle, something to connect my barely-formed ideas to today’s America, when I flicked on the TV and witnessed a clip of then-President Clinton testifying before the grand jury. Referring to whether he’d lied about a sexual relationship with Monica…
Love it or hate it, you’ve probably heard Taylor Swift’s new single “Look What You Made Me Do.” It’s a dark and witchy tune, a techno battle-cry, an anthem of the betrayed, an un-catchy promise to bring blight and famine to Kim and Kanye’s star-studded lifestyle — but it’s also bad. And I should know…
The music world is abuzz with rumors about Taylor Swift’s new single “Look What You Made Me Do.” Is it about Kanye West and Kim Kardashian? Or is it an ode to Arya Stark from “Game of Thrones”? Is Taylor Swift a witch? Is she a snake inside the body of a 27-year-old white woman?…
“And the serpent said to the woman, “You are not going to die, but G-d knows that as soon as you eat of it your eyes will be open and you will be like divine beings who know good and bad.” Genesis 3: 4-5 “Boys only want love if it’s torture/Don’t say I didn’t say,…
Sometimes, it can seem like Taylor Swift and Katy Perry invented the celebrity feud. But decades before Swift accused Perry of stealing her backup dancers in cold blood, Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin hated each other. In the wake of Lewis’s death, a video is making the rounds of Frank Sinatra, in true “Real Housewives…
Curl up with this year’s best reads from some of the biggest, funniest Jewish names in pop culture. Superficial: More Adventures From the Andy Cohen Diaries Talk show host Andy Cohen brings all the juicy, candid, pop culture packed elements from his hit show, “Watch What Happens Live,” into his latest memoir. There’s an awkward…
With online anti-Semitism running rampant, and with this evening’s presidential debate likely to make life in the public sphere that much more delightful for Jews, the question is, what do we do? How do we cope? I urge you to read journalist Ned Resnikoff’s Medium post, “Nobody talks about the fact that Taylor Swift is…
100% of profits support our journalism
