Celebrating Jewish holidays away from home is always hard. I miss my family, the rituals, the familiarity, but most of all, the food. During college and graduate school, was lucky enough to have extended family close by who fed me, took me to synagogue, and made sure I was included in […]

Cool jobs: A sassy Israeli radio producer brings diversity and fun to proramming. Read on!

We asked our contributors and their friends, “What music gets you in the mood for some lovin’?”

Lesly Hershman:
I live in Atlanta, Georgia where summers are sweltering. Some days, it’s almost too hot to go outside and sit by the pool to cool off. Once fall moves in (which it still hasn’t really done) my favorite activity is just sitting outside. It’s hard to have bright, sunny days that […]

In many ways, Istanbul is the rarest of cosmopolitan cities. Having once reigned supreme as the capital of the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul now enjoys a quiet and bygone intrigue. Pamuk’s ode to his native city is subtly graceful and honest, but on the other hand I can’t help but be disappointed in his pervasive critical eye on Istanbul.

If you watch television, you’ve probably seen, and wanted to throw your remote at, this commercial. In recent years commercials for birth control have started to become common, but they haven’t improved.

What to wear on a date? Why doesn’t he call? How to tell if he likes me? - These and other questions, answered in detail by our one and only.

At some point in our lives, the overwhelming majority of us will become sexually active, and we’re going to get our advice on those situations from somewhere: our parents, our friends, our gynecologist, maybe Cosmo. So you may as well hear it from me. What follows are the actions I feel are most important for any woman, whether she’s going to be sexually active now or later.

Living or studying abroad - here is your manual!

It is this humble reporter’s opinion that the average American (humble reporter included) wastes an awful lot of time. Society dictates that work hours be long and downtime be spent playing—in bars, on the Internet, watching trashy reality TV. Ours is a culture with a soft spot for the “guilty pleasure,” a term we made […]