Not Your Bubbe’s Recipe: Cheese and Spinach Blintzes

What to read in the magazine on Friday, September 15: Welcome to Jewcy: Who are we, why are we here? If editor-in-chief Tahl Raz manages to go two paragraphs without using the phrase "subversively didactic," then the last five months … Read More

So there I was, happily reading the latest American addendum to the Euston Manifesto, and feeling very sorry indeed for making the point, in my ongoing exchange with EM co-author Norm Geras, that this worthy document hasn't carried across the … Read More

Why are guys so gruesome and uncreative in their attempts to pick you up? So many different classifications and phyla of the “Male Pickup” exist. There are the “Hey, sexy” followed by a grope of your ass guys; those are … Read More

Remember the good old days in Iraq? When the helicopter gunships ran on time, and the sweet smell of nerve agents filled the Halabja air? Sigh. What a time it was. NYT: “Why did he try to see Saddam Hussein?” … Read More

Do we have a toilet? – Izzy to boyfriend Andy. (Their can is currently in their kitchen. Fucking Williamsburg.)