On September 19, the finalists of the Sukkah City design competition unveiled their re-imagined sukkahs in New York’s Union Square. Locals and tourists alike rubbed shoulders to get a closer look at the ritual huts, which transformed the downtown park into an architectural showcase. The sukkahs will remain in Union Square through September 20. After…
Adam Langer’s novel, “The Thieves of Manhattan” uses an all-too-familiar climate of made-up memoirs as a place to set con games. In this Yid Lit Podcast, Langer talks about writing to Stephen Sondheim, world-class literary hoaxes and why he doesn’t think of himself as a Jewish writer. Read the Forward’s review of “The Thieves of…
In her new memoir, “Everything is Going to Be Great,” author and performer Rachel Shukert travels to Europe after college to “escape the weight of [her] own expectations,” which involves no small measure of drinking, gallivanting and sleeping with (non-American) boys. Amidst a ribald trek of self-discovery, Shukert skewers what she dubs a new paternalism…
Jennifer Gilmore’s fiction centers on an inevitability — that everything from the food we eat to our friends and politics is affected by the ideas first formed in our childhood homes. The author of the National Jewish Book Award nominated “Golden Country” (Scribner, 2006), Gilmore writes about families with beautiful acuity — celebrating how everyday…
Irene Fertik is an American photojournalist who has been documenting the Ethiopian-Israeli community for the past 20 years. She’s captured the community’s highs and lows as they transition from an agricultural to an industrial society. Despite the immense challenges facing Ethiopian-Israelis, Fertik says the community is incredibly resilient, proud of their history and optimistic about…
Nothing cools down a rash of steamy summer nights like a frosty pint of beer. Unless, that is, you are Jewish — because aside from the occasional l’chaim around the Kiddush table or on Purim night, Jews don’t drink. Especially not beer. Of course, anyone who has ever witnessed their Uncle Barry getting soused on…
When Tsilli Pines was planning to wed in 2005 and couldn’t find a ketubah (the official Jewish marriage document), that reflected her own taste, she rolled up her sleeves and made one herself. The Portland, Ore.-based graphic designer, who has lent creative juices to the online presences of David Bowie and Robert Mondavi Wines, had…
David Freedenberg told us how he once applied for a job with the New York Police Department’s counter-terrorism unit. He didn’t get the spot, which he says is just as well. “If I got that job, I would go to sleep at night thinking about Times Square blowing up,” he remarked. “Now I think about…
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