Culture

Writing in Tablet, Marjorie Ingall mourns the passing of Partick Swayze, says he was the perfect distillation of goyish masculinity and reflects on the death of the sheygets: Patrick Swayze, who died [Sept. 14] at the age of 57, was many things — an actor, a heartthrob — but, as embodied by his character in […]

Fifty-eight religious and civil organizations, including 11 Jewish groups, wrote Attorney General Eric Holder last week urging him to review and withdraw a Bush administration legal memo which stated that religious organizations receiving federal money could take religion into account when hiring — and thus were exempted from employment discrimination laws. The memo argued that […]