Stan Mack is a journalist and cartoonist, born in Brooklyn, New York, and brought up in Providence. His comic Stan Mack’s Real Life Funnies ran in the Village Voice for twenty years. Formerly the art director of the New York Times Magazine, Mack is the author of several young adult nonfiction books and children’s picture books.
Louis Mitelberg drew this cartoon in ironic response to a 1967 comment made by French president Charles De Gaulle in the wake of the Six Day War, in which he described the Jewish people (now that they…
Traditionally performed on the afternoon of the first day of Rosh Hashanah, Tashlich is a rite in which Jews symbolically cast away their sins by throwing breadcrumbs into a body of moving water…
Why does a book on Jewish philosophy begin with a discussion of revelation? First, because it is revelation that creates Judaism as a religion. […] Without God’s…