English singer was a unique, talented take on Jewish femininity The famous Food Coop discusses boycotting goods Joan Nathan on her old friend, a philanthropic dynamo and wonderful lady And Rep. Cantor is a crucial player in the negotiations How the Murdoch scandal could give Britain its first Jewish head of government David Samuels and Bari Weiss are literary, senior editors  | |  Larry David, the antihero of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, is particular, a prig, and constantly aggrieved. But he's fine with that—which is why, contrary to type, he's not at all neurotic. There are three adjectives that are often used to describe Larry David, the star and creator of Curb Your Enthusiasm, which recently premiered its eighth season after two excruciating, Curb-less years. One is "bespectacled," which is fair enough. Another is "bald," a signifier David's television alter-ego regards as a traditionally oppressed tribal identity (spitting in biblical fury when the assimilationists among this imagined fraternity of the hairless attempt to "pass" under the camouflage of a baseball cap or, God forbid, a toupee). Finally, and most ubiquitously, he is "neurotic." More  | Conventional wisdom says Israel must reach a peace deal quickly, before population trends and diplomatic isolation overtake the Jewish state. Demographics and geopolitics tell a different story. More |  | Israeli tycoon Arnon Milchan is the billionaire Hollywood producer behind Pretty Woman. He was also a secret agent who helped Israel and South Africa broker deals trading nuclear material for propaganda assistance. An excerpt from the forthcoming Confidential. More BY Joseph Gelman and Meir Doron |  | Recent superhero movies—the Green Lantern, Thor, even the reboot of Superman—are terrible. The solution? Hollywood should get back to the source material and make these heroes more Jewish. More BY Jacob Silverman | |
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