Culture

International Olympic Committee warns Lebanon over bus incident

At a hearing Sunday, the IOC committee said it would not accept another incident like the one Friday, in which Israeli Olympians were prevented from boarding a bus to the opening ceremonies.

Marking Tisha b’Av during a long, hot summer

The mournful summer fast day commemorates the destruction of the First and Second Temples. But is there room to remember the struggles of others as well?

Yiddish, Pig Skin, and Other Surprises in Jell-O’s Troubled Jewish Past

Long a staple of the American Jewish desert table, Jell-O has a much more divisive and political origin story than you’d expect from a wobbly gelatinous mass. As told in Roger Horowitz’s new Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food, in the 1910s, Genesee Pure Food Company began to advertise […]