How social media felled a rising star, and how his Jewishness was involved And the all-time all-Jewish starting lineup Palestinians, seemingly turned off by U.N. vote, tentatively agree to peace talks Comic strip by ballot initiative author draws a 'Monster Mohel'  | |  A new biography tries to untangle painter Lee Krasner from the husband whose outsize personality and paint-splattered canvasses left her in the shadows In 1943, Peggy Guggenheim came to visit Jackson Pollock's studio on East 8th Street in Greenwich Village. In the small, poor, ferociously competitive world of downtown artists, a visit from Guggenheim was like a visit from Santa Claus: If this rich and trendsetting collector decided to feature an artist at her famous midtown gallery, Art of This Century, his reputation was made. And Pollock needed all the help he could get. At the time, he was enjoying a very different kind of patronage from Peggy's uncle, Solomon Guggenheim, founder of the museum then known as the Museum of Non-Objective Art, and now called simply the Guggenheim. For months, he had been working as the museum's janitor. More  | Though born to a family of cattle dealers, Bill Berman is an anomaly among South Florida's dairymen, few of whom start their day by putting on tefillin More |  | A journalist investigates a mysterious murder in Casablanca, home to the last Jewish community in the Arab world. An excerpt from the forthcoming The Honored Dead. More BY JOSEPH BRAUDE |  | Alfred Kazin's journals were more than just repositories for literary reflections; they were the laboratories in which he fashioned the writer—and Jew—he aspired to be More BY MARK SHECHNER | |
