When the hottest German is a Jew

So Guy de Maupassant and Paul Bourget not only share space in my dissertation, but also had the same Russian-Jewish lover. The rest of the a...

About those napping Greek islanders

Well good for them . Olive oil, sure, wine, why not, longevity, OK. No goats'-milk for me, thanks unless it's been turned into a che...

"Orders which must be obeyed"*

The best article ever: Kate Connolly of the Guardian reports on a coffee shop in Berlin that has banned, among other things, strollers: Ral...

Those anti-circumcision Muslims

Over at Commentary, Jonathan Tobin makes an argument I'm having trouble wrapping my head around: that the new wave of interest in banni...

Sale season in Heidelberg

Recently I noticed that a hair salon across the street sells this super-cool Berlin-based nail polish brand. Not available in the States! At...

Via Facebook, international edition

-Unpaid internships: not just in the States, not just in glamorous professions . -A Brussels woman, Sofie Peeters,  makes a documentary abo...

In offensiveness today

-From Slate France, the unsurprising connections between far-right politics (in France and Germany) and the local-sustainable food movement...

A sensitive subject

When I read about the German court that ruled against circumcision for religious reasons (i.e. as practiced by Muslims and Jews), I confess...

It's Parochial Tuesday at WWPD

-The NYT had the good sense not to open up for comments its article about how The Jews are demographically inundating New York. -Sweden had...

Qualms

I love that the woman profiled in that  article about how French women are in fact capable of getting fat, or at least of worrying that the...

Le bike, c'est chic

The NYT Style magazine is evidently gearing up (sorry) for a bicycle-themed issue, given how many of its recent posts are biking-themed. As...

Two-buck Chuck

Charles Murray, over truffles, a gin-brand-specified martini, and a $100-plus bottle o' wine, complains , “'[I]n academia their [eli...

Johan the Plumber

When the rest of socially-liberal American womankind was still worried that we were looking at a Santorum presidency (or are we still?), I w...

The fact remains

Reading the Forward , the following quote, from an expert in this area, jumped out : "'[T]he fact that 20% of Germans have anti-Sem...