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You Don't Mess with Texans, but You Don't Mess with Chechens Ten Times As Much

Simon Hanukaev's family has lived along the western shore of the Caspian Sea for generations. Settled near the city of Derbent, a southern city in the Russian republic of Dagestan, Hanukaev's predecessors lived through khanates and tsars, under Bolshevik revolution and Stalinist resettlement. His pa ... More >>

Gilad Efrat's Images of Desolation

"Negev" paintings show scenes from the desert and moon — haunting, mournful and apparently eternal.

Free Radicals Examine Both Sides of The Freedom Fence

Free Radicals are, strangely enough, one of Houston's most stable ensembles. Their music may vary wildly from song to song, from jazz and klezmer to ska and rap, but the band drummer Nick Cooper started in 1996 has had a steady core of members for most of those years. Baritone saxophonist Pete Sulli ... More >>

Free Radicals: "If There's No Money Involved, That's Fine"

Free Radicals have won an amazing nine Houston Press Music Awards for Best Jazz, but jazz really doesn't even begin to cover the 16-year-old Houston group's sound. It's so all over the place that the only category that really fits is the oft-misunderstood "world music," especially on the Radicals' n ... More >>

The 2012 Summer Israeli Film Series:Three Servings of Funny

Mediterranean Film Festival

''WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY''

33rd Annual Dance Month at the Kaplan Theatre: Company E - NEXT: An Evening of Choreography of Israel and Spain

39th Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair: Local Literati

Gimme My Hummus

Anamaris Cousins PriceHummus​Not long ago, someone wrote to the editors at EOW asking for the best hummus recipe and we got right to work. Hummus has long been one of those things that make me think of the cute guy across the bar. He's hot and nice to look at and talk to, but he'd be way too m ... More >>

Borgore

Rick Perry Wades into Foreign Policy

But he can't see Russia from his front porch.​Governor Rick Perry has told reporters he's too busy with the legislative session to think about running for the presidency, but luckily -- news flash!! -- the legislative session is dealing with American foreign policy. Apparently. Perry's office ... More >>

Texas Secessionists to Obama: Israel With 1967 Borders? We Want Texas With 1845 Borders

Our own "Arab Spring"​President Obama's call for Israel to revert to its 1967 borders has caught the attention of one of the most forward-thinking, sophisticated political thinkers of our state, Daniel Miller, the president of the Texas Nationalist Movement. He has dashed off a letter to Obam ... More >>

“In the Footsteps of My Grandparents”

Finally...the 2011 Jim Rome Smack-Off Recap

Glory days, well they pass you by....​"It's good to be in something from the ground floor, but I came in too late for that. But lately I get the feeling that I came in at the end, that the best is over." -- Tony Soprano In the first three minutes of the greatest television show of all-time, ... More >>

The Human Resources Manager

Top 5 Must-Haves in a Killer Wine Bar

boo_licious​Call it my wine bar intuition. Sometimes, a place just doesn't sit right with me. Lately I've been thinking about why that is. Generating a successful wine bar means much more than meeting the general requirements of wine service, such as knowledgeable staff and proper storage. Qu ... More >>

Jennifer Peto: Holocaust Controversy Reaches Houston

Houstonian defends his grandmother in dispute​There's a mini-storm in Canada these days over the University of Toronto awarding an advanced degree to a student for a thesis that calls Holocaust-education programs "racist." Jennifer Peto's thesis, entitled The Victimhood of the Powerful: White ... More >>

Israeli TV Show Is Taping In Houston And Honoring Right-Wingers

Live! From Houston! It's Tuesday Night Live In Jerusalem!!​Houston is the first stop for Israeli TV hosts Ari Abramowitz and Jeremy Gimpel as they take Tuesday Night Live in Jerusalem across the United States. "We want to give an empowering, uplifting, inspiring message about Israel. And the ... More >>

Ingredient of the Week: Israeli Couscous

​What is it? Israeli couscous, also known as ptitim, is a baked pasta most commonly in the shape of tiny little spheres. Like the other couscous, it is made of semolina wheat, but instead of being dried, it is toasted, and the individual granules are almost twice as large. It is similar in si ... More >>

"Paper Runway"

The Center for Contemporary Craft outsources a show to some paper experts

Top 10 Restaurants in the Galleria Area

Photo by Erika RayStocking up on salsas at Chacho's.​The Galleria has more than 26 million visitors per year. While a significant amount of those people are tourists -- what wouldn't we give to visit a city just to shop there! -- many are Houstonians who gravitate toward the Uptown Park area o ... More >>

Celestial Sandwiches - Day Three

Breakfast sandwich from La Guadalupana. ​This week we're offering up 25 of our favorite sandwiches. Below is today's list. And if you haven't seen them yet, here's Monday's and Tuesday's. Breakfast sandwich at La Guadalupana - The breakfast sandwich, in general, is much less popular than the ... More >>

Wine of the Week: Israeli Wine

​The other Saturday, we went to a wine tasting at Block 7 devoted to Israeli wines. We hadn't really heard of Israeli wines but were assured that we would love them. A few glasses later, we were hooked. We even took a few bottles home, and it wasn't in an alcohol-induced shopping frenzy. In ... More >>

The Houston Comedy Film Festival Is Here -- Yuk it Up

​Houston has its share of film festivals, including last month's mega-successful Cinema Arts Festival Houston. But this week's 1st Annual Houston Comedy Film Festival is adding another flavor to the scene with a collection of funny flicks from around the world. (Of the more than 400 submissions th ... More >>

Deep-Fried and Still Alive: 5 Culinary Practices As Cruel As the Chinese Deep-Fried Fish

The video above is fairly graphic. Do not watch if you are faint of stomach or heart. By now, most people have seen the video circulating the Internet which features a fish that has been deep-fried, being consumed...alive. Yes, the fish is still alive during the deep-frying process and while it's ... More >>

"A Blessing to One Another: Pope John Paul II and the Jewish People"

A pontiff bridges a centuries-old divide

High School Debate

Batsheva Dance Company

The troupe co-founded by Martha Graham performs a variety of dance works by Choreographer/Artistic Director Ohad Naharin

36th Annual Jewish Book and Arts Fair

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Something Sweet

Love is a messy, messy affair in this Israeli film

Paradise Lost in Surfwise

Parenting off the grid — and eventually off the reservation — in this alt-family portrait

A conversation with Mohammed Al-Farra of Palestinian Rapperz

Straight Outta Gaza

Dan Fesperman

The author of The Prisoner of Guantánamo reads from his newest spy novel

Monotonix: Body Language

35th Annual Jewish Book & Arts Fair

The Jewish Community Center presents two weeks of authors, filmmakers and artists

The Bubble

Twentysomething Tel Aviv hipsters live life, have sex, befriend the enemy in The Bubble

Holocaust Museum Houston Lecture Series

Examining Anti-Semitism

Kwoutable Kwoutes

Ay, Oy! Let's Goy!

Watch for the Signs

Remember Them

Portrait of an "Old Lady"

And one of the most intriguing personalities of the 20th century

Christmas Break

The Blue and White Ball won't let you be "A Lonely Jew at Christmas"

Peace Through Art

"Made in Palestine" humanizes the Middle East conflict

Personae of Persecution

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