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Essay Semitic Squads Earlier this week, Marc Tracy challenged Jewish sports fans to a little quiz and wrote about Jews in sports and Hollywood. He has been blogging here all week for… Marc Tracy November 16, 2012
Essay We Missed These Jewish Jocks. Do You Know Them? On Tuesday, Marc Tracy wrote about Jews in sports and Hollywood. He will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.In the movie Airplane,… Marc Tracy November 15, 2012
Essay The Charitable Side of Jekyll & Hyde Today, JBC reviewer M. Elias Keller writes about how a core Jewish concept helped him write his novel, Strange Case of Mr. Bodkin & Father Whitechapel.Although… M. Elias Keller November 14, 2012
Essay Sports Is Like Hollywood: They’re Both Jewish! Marc Tracy is the co-editor of the new book Jewish Jocks: An Unorthodox Hall of Fame. He will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and MyJewishLearning.In… Marc Tracy November 13, 2012
Essay Wimps Earlier this week, Haim Watzman wrote about how to succeed in academia without doing any research and Super Tuesday. He has been blogging here all week for Jewish… Haim Watzman November 9, 2012
Essay Writing Biography: The Historian’s Challenge, Part 2 On Tuesday, Gerald Sorin wrote about ambivalence toward the genre of biography. Today, he considers the question: Can the biographer or their readers really know the… Gerald Sorin November 8, 2012
