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Lately, it seems like everybody’s a fan of the idea of a Jewish state…and nobody’s a fan of the State of Israel. First, Michael Chabon‘s novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, a sort of post-Zionist fantasy, moved the Jewish “safe country” from the Middle East to Alaska. Then the recent documentary Freeland (watch it here, free) researched the early-1900s quest to build a Jewish settlement […]

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Israelis still can’t get over how cool they are for being the tourism and partying destination of Bono, and apparently the U2 frontman and person-who-makes-you-feel-bad-about-yourself-for-not-doing-enough-good-deeds is also a sketch artist. Staffers at Jerusalem’s famed King David Hotel came across this note that Bono left in the hotel guestbook, where he wrote that (and it took […]

When people talk about mixed marriages, they don’t usually mean this. In Twelfth and Race, a new novel by Eric Goodman, Richard Gordon, a middle-class Jewish guy, moves to a small Kansas town and has his identity stolen–credit cards, social security card, everything. Years later, on the border between two urban neighborhoods (hence the title), he meets LaTisha, the […]

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