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Going Gray Behind Bars
What to Do With Elderly Prisoners?
A Prison Debate
Massachusetts compiles the history of the Norfolk Prison Debate Team, which beat the likes of Oxford’s best.
How Do You Say ‘Charge It’ in Yiddish?
Chalk it up to the recession; it’s making all of us behave in unexpected ways.
Sound the Bagpipes: Scots Design Jewish Tartan
The Scottish Tartans Authority recently registered the only official Jewish tartan.
The Word of God, Rewritten
Two San Francisco-based artists have set up a Web site that allows Jews everywhere to “remix” the commandments, using colloquial English and a modern sensibility to reinterpret the lessons of the mitzvot.
Play on Words: An Alternative Forward
A San Francisco congregation goes gaily forward.
A Moustache to Kvell Over
DJ and fashion designer Alexander Antebi was named the World Imperial Moustache Champion at the 2007 World Beard and Moustache Championships.
Don’t Tell Bubbe: Gentile is Kosher Queen
A panel of experts convened in New York City last week to determine the country’s best kosher cook, and the results may come as a surprise: The winner was not Jewish.
A Swank Passover
“The Reaping,” starring Hilary Swank as a skeptic investigating an outbreak of plagues in a small Southern town, opens March 30 — three days before the first night of Passover.
Brandeis Gets Fifteen More Minutes
Andy Warhol’s “Louis Brandeis,” which the artist created as part of a series called “Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century,” donated to Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum.