Monthly Archives: June 2008

Posted on June 11, 2008 by Steve Pollak

Allegra Goodman in The New Yorker

Novelist Allegra Goodman (pictured right) wrote an essay for the most recent issue of The New Yorker that had me thinking about all the Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur services I suffered through as a child. In her essay, Goodman … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 8, 2008 by Steve Pollak

Lewis Black: 'Can I get an amen!'

Check out comedian Lewis Black promoting his new book, “Me of Little Faith.” Black apparently had been fairly well-versed in Judaism at one point. According to a recent article in the Chicago Sun-Times, he had a vocabulary of 50,000 Hebrew … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 6, 2008 by Steve Pollak

Kissinger and the critics

Niall Ferguson, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, wrote an interesting review for The Times Literary Supplement of Jeremi Suri's recent book, “Henry Kissinger and the American Century.” Early on in the piece, Ferguson makes the … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 4, 2008 by Steve Pollak

Campaign 2008: Candidates discuss … Philip Roth?

I just finished reading Jeffrey Goldberg’s interviews with Barack Obama and John McCain. And while I enjoyed reading about the two presidential candidates’ policies regarding Israel, Iran and the Middle East in general, I was amused by their differing stances … Continue reading →

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Posted on June 3, 2008 by Steve Pollak

Aleksandar Hemon and the murder of a Jewish immigrant

The acclaimed Bosnian-American writer Aleksandar Hemon is not Jewish but something about the little-known story of Lazarus Averbuch — a Jew who was murdered by Chicago's chief of police in 1908 — grabbed his attention and became the focus of … Continue reading →

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