This past weekend, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach set off a firestorm with his full-page ad in the New York Times accusing National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice of turning a blind eye to the Rwandan genocide when she was on President Bill Clinton’s national security team in the 1990s. (This was after Rice had criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for insisting on speaking to Congress against the White House’s wishes.) Thankfully, Jewish organizations from the right to the left united to condemn this ad. Read More...
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Do you ever wonder what your favorite chefs cook at home, when they’re in their own kitchens, away from the chaos of the restaurant? Do dishes from their menus ever end up on their dining room tables?
Well, this recipe is an answer. Read More...
If you know anything about Taylor Swift, you probably know that she writes songs about herself: her relationships, her family, her friends, her feuds, her successes, her failures. This autobiographical, highly detailed songwriting style has helped catapult Swift to pop megastar status while also making her fiercely loyal fan base feel that she’s still just like them.
So it’s rare that Swift steps outside and writes about someone else’s story. However, that’s what she did in several songs on “Folklore,” her eighth studio album that she suddenly released Friday, after announcing she had co-written and recorded an entire record — with collaborators Bon Iver, the National’s Aaron Dessner and Jack Antonoff — in the past four months of quarantine during the coronavirus pandemic. Read More...
