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Issue 2 - Spring 2006 - The Fight Issue
Articles
TRADING CARDS
JEWISH WRESTLING ALL-STARS
They had names like Blimp and Hercules. Their manager was known as the Halitosis Kid. Intellectuals, they were not
BY EDDY PORTNOY
LETTER FROM ISRAEL
TWO SWORN ENEMIES AND A MICROPHONE
In Israeli hip-hop, it's all political
BY DORIAN LYNSKEY
FICTION
MAN NOT SUPERMAN
All the things old girlfriends had found gross about me, Lois Lane found charming
BY JONATHAN GOLDSTEIN
SIDEBAR
NONE APPARENTLY ALLERGIC TO SPANDEX
In the pantheon of comic book superheroes, a few were Jews
BY NICHOLAS HUNE-BROWN
REPORT
WE DO NOT BELIEVE. WE WILL NOT FOLLOW
They support the nuclearization of Iran, they march alongside Hamas, and they believe Zionism is what sparked the Holocaust. Members of the ultra-Orthodox sect Neturai Karta have long been in conflict with other Jews, but now they are also at war with eac
BY MICHA ODENHEIMER
COMIC
ARCHIVE
YONKLE DOODLE DANDY
Hebrew comedy sheet music covers from The Lester S. Levy Collection, Johns Hopkins University
BY JODY ROSEN
FICTION (EXCERPT)
PROPHET: THE EARLY YEARS
BY ARNON GRUNBERG
Translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett
CHRONICLE
MOVE OVER, MISS POLONIA
The Miss Judea Pageant was only looking for Poland's most beautiful Jewess. But rabbis in fisticuffs meant scandal in Warsaw
BY EDDY PORTNOY
ESSAY
HEIDEGGER'S MISTRESS
An exploration in 32 paragraphs
BY WAYNE KOESTENBAUM
MEMOIR
THE GREAT JEWISH BEAUTY
She was filthy and devious and stole from men in bedrooms! I wanted to be exactly like her
BY LARA VAPNYAR
NOTEBOOK
THE O.T. AT THE O.C.
THE O.T. AT THE O.C.
What biblical icons do when they find themselves in Orange County
BY AIMEE BENDER
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