At end of life, Oliver Sacks craved gefilte fish
By BRIAN SCHAEFER (JTA) — On Aug. 30, at age 82, noted neurologist and author Dr. Oliver Sacks succumbed to ...
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Editorial: Democracy or oligarchy?
Are you familiar with any of these folks: Norman Braman, Paul Singer or Fred Eychanar? Give up? They are some ...
Editorial: Living in the surveillance state
Glenn Greenwald had the scoop of the century, so far, with his reporting on the trove of documents taken by ...
Editorial: Gun control efforts get shot down
On Sept. 27, 2012, a recently terminated employee at Accent Signage Systems in Minneapolis went out to his car for ...
Aline and R. Crumb draw on their life experiences
R. Crumb was the celebrated cartoonist of the 1960s psychedelic culture. In the ’70s, he met Aline Kominsky, who was ...
Editorial: Israel votes
More than 5.6 million Israelis are eligible to vote in the upcoming elections on Jan. 22, aspects of which might ...
Editorial: What does ‘pro-Israel’ mean?
A cartoon by Paul Noth in the new issue of The New Yorker shows Moses leading the Israelites through the ...
Ellen Willis pioneered rock music criticism
Although she stopped writing about music in the early 1980s, Ellen Willis was an influential rock critic. The first popular ...
Editorial: Iran threatens Israel, and vice versa
As the 2012 elections approach, the issue of U.S. policy toward Israel will emerge again as a partisan political football. ...
Editorial: What’s news?
A year-end journalistic convention is the compilation of top news stories. In many cases this exercise results in a superficial ...
