Culture

Israel’s traffic cops have a friend in Sheriff David Clarke

Sheriff David Clarke has been spotted wearing the insignia for Israel's traffic police. But has he perfected the "rak rega" gesture?

There’s a $149 deal on flights to Israel? Don’t believe the hype.

The Icelandic WOW airline is promoting a bargain — but you may want to do a little more exploring.

A Jewish Cult Poet and His Famous Anti-Semitic Friend

If you’re familiar with Ezra Pound, the king of modernist poetry, then you’re probably aware of his notorious anti-Semitism. What you might not know is that a Jewish Marxist poet with a cult following named Louis Zukofsky was one of his good friends. Born in 1904 to Orthodox Lithuanian immigrants on the Lower East Side, […]