What Would Phoebe Do?

I'm late to the Tipex/Teapacks story, and have, most upsettingly, missed the group's NYC show. Last winter the IDF soldiers on the ...

At a time when the best-known political figures on the left and right are the wife and son, respectively, of the two previous U.S. president...

The way some people feel about Toni Morrison replacing Shakespeare on syllabi, I feel about leggings replacing pants. It signals the end of ...

Loyal readers will be shocked, shocked to learn that I decided to check out " Alfred Dreyfus: The Fight for Justice ," an exhibit ...

Directing a workweek's worth of hostility at the white, male, hetero, pink-collared-shirt-wearing, misogynistic banker crowd, aka "...

Has anything changed since Woody Allen's artistic peak? Does 'Jewish man' still mean pale, skinny, and intellectual? (Is there a...

Peter Sarsgaard . Scruffier and pudgier than in the movies, and wearing shorts.

Not naming names, but the individual with whom I watched 'Gossip Girl' deserves credit for pointing out the weirdness of the fact th...

More fuss over conversion from Sephardic quarters . Converts to Orthodox Judaism in the U.S. are not being permitted to marry in Israel. Thi...

New York Magazine profiles the 283 best women's shoes available for purchase in our fine city. As it happens, one of the pairs they re...

Is being a conservative in academia a bit like being gay somewhere conservative? Is the academic right-wing really a world of coded, " ...

Daphne Merkin's response to a trip to Southampton: I began to feel very Jewish and very vulnerable. (Although the Hamptons abound in af...

The dachshunds frolic through Washington Square Park twice a year. The latest installment ... Exit Ghost . The problem is not that Nathan Zu...

Why is Gawker writing about Bobst , Baudelaire, and Proust ? Gossip websites are not supposed to remind me of the summer I just spent study...

A New Jersey Hasidic rabbi was physically assaulted on the street by a man yelling, "Jew, Jew." This is not being looked into as ...

I am 24 and a student, so I fall within the part of the Venn diagram where " the Odyssey years " overlap with " Generation Q ...

Via Matthew Yglesias I have learned, from Eric Alterman via M.J. Rosenberg , that "20-something Jews now coming up in the media are ve...

It's great that a gathering of the high-brow anti-Zionist crowd is being called, "In Defense of Academic Freedom." I guess th...

I was enlightened, as it were, on this issue two different times in my life. Having grown up in a buah known as Manhattan, I did not realiz...

I teach near what appears to be a very wealthy private school, one of those ones where, even though it's smack dab in the middle of NYC,...

Is "Ivy Week" supposed to correspond with anything that exists in real life? Does anyone really care that much about his child go...

There was supposed to be a point to the post below, but it appears I fell asleep before making it. The point is/was that NYC, or even a cert...

Rita wants to know why Park Slope is filled with babies . Since I trip over on average 15 strollers each day on the way to the train, I will...

After a day of zee French grad school, I was shopping for groceries, and it occurred to me to buy a baguette at a shop near campus. Quelle m...

What's the obvious follow-up to a French grad student happy hour and a UChicago alumni mixer? Easy--a physics department picnic! I just ...

For a long list of reasons, I ended up at the UChicago "Phoenixphest." One of the people I was there to meet I never met; the othe...

Of all the injustices in the world, one you're least likely to hear about is how much harder it is for middle-class teens to go out drin...

A while back, Will Baude blogged about his book addiction (and now the link to that post is kaput). 'Book addiction' struck me as si...

It came down to a choice between these and never buying coffee/food out for the rest of grad school, or these . No contest, so I never even...

The NYT published 10 letters about Ahmadinejad's visit to Columbia. In all of them, the only reasons anyone comes up with for why invit...

The latest issue of PresenTense, Ariel Beery et al's new mag, is filled with articles about Jewish babies. As I might have mentioned , ...

The main justification I've seen from reliable sources for why having Ahmadinejad speak at Columbia was a good idea is that an open di...

In what was surely a conspiracy, Ahmadinejad decided to speak (and thus be protested) exactly when my weekly class meets. So I missed the no...

This weekend I started reading Rome and Jerusalem , Moses Hess's 1862 declaration of Jewish nationhood. Yes, pre-Herzl. Our bearded frie...

The next time someone asks me about French anti-Semitism today, I will suggest that he look at the comments to mainstream articles in the Am...

Eytan Fox's latest movie, " The Bubble ," in a sense picks up where " Yossi and Jagger " left off. The potentially h...

Do they hate us because we complain, or do we complain because they hate us? Michael Gerson's op-ed, " Seeds of Anti-Semitism ,...

What's interesting about these 'Canon wars' is that the warriors assume a situation that was in fact a huge exception in the his...

I finally got around to reading Rachel Donadio's article, " Revisiting the Canon Wars ." Hmm. A couple thoughts: [Tony] Judt a...

"Beauty and the Geek" has a new, stereotype-defying incarnation . Of course the girl's a grad student.