"'The Jewish womb belongs to the Jewish people'"

Sometimes a story fits so perfectly with a WWPD tag that it simply demands a post, even if it's a difficult one to write, and one that l...

Requisite Jewish Christmas post

If you're Jewish, and do the thing of treating non-celebration-of-Christmas as the major, definitive Jewish holiday, what actually goes ...

Sigh, natalism

I can now add to my list of minor achievements that I was telling Ross Douthat he was wrong about natalism before it was cool . I am now, it...

"Special privileges"

Calling Flavia , Flavia's commenter "i," and the usual WWPD audience: The following just appeared on my Facebook newsfeed: ...

United in studiousness and lactose intolerance

-As someone who both is intermarried and studies intermarriage ( the backstory ), I read with interest this account of a couple, Helen Kim ...

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...

Wax nostalgic

A Styles masterpiece, in keeping with the theme of the post below: a story about how girls - young ones! pre-high-school! - are now getting...

Atheist cosmopolitans with a keen sense of smell

-Mark Zuckerberg has the audacity not to live according to the religious principles of a rabbi who doesn't know him personally, but who...

OK, one more genre: The "Bad" Jew, Redux

It's like Philip Roth, Woody Allen*, that entire generation, that entire outlook, never happened, and it's still provocative - still...

Second attempts

-Sometimes I write a whopper of a post, and it will then occur to me a few days later that what I'd meant to convey could have been done...

Jewish-Jewish intermarriage under attack

Jeffrey Goldberg has brought our attention (and Helen Rosner, via Facebook, my attention) to an ad campaign, sponsored by the Israeli gover...