Forget Celebrity Wife Swap. This is down and dirty neighbor-to-neighbor swapping that brings you into the most intimate recesses of your neighbors’ personal lives: the dinner co-op. Two, three,...
On the night of July 3, exactly 48 hours after General Abdul Fatah Sisi of the Special Council of Armed Forces (SCAF) gave President Morsi an ultimatum—either he listen to the demands of the...
Judging from Twitter, Egypt is in complete chaos. Online, protesters in the square tweeted pictures of a Tahrir Square that resembled the first, triumphant images of the Arab Spring and shared...
Last week, the United States Supreme Court struck down the portion of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that defined marriage as between only one man and one woman. When it was in place, this...
US celebrity chef Paula Deen is no stranger to controversy, but last week, the furore she caused may have marked the start of a downward career slide as information surfaced from a deposition...
When important media outlets such as CNN sympathize openly with the rapists, it is about time we as a society begin to think about what is wrong with us. That is precisely what occurred recently in...
On Sunday, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan climbed onto a bus in Ankara, Turkey in front of a crowd of raging protesters and warned that his patience with the protests—that are now in...
On Friday, Israel’s annual gay pride celebration took over the streets of Tel Aviv, spilling from the sidewalks to the streets to the beaches. Israelis and foreigners alike, who now come from...
Emily Lindin is a blogger who has been posting her 6th grade diary entries online every day. A couple of months into the entries, her 11-year-old self lies on her parents’ bed and tries to think of...
Among the world's Jews, a gender war looms at Judaism’s holiest site. The Women of the Wall are a group of Jewish women who have been holding monthly services at the Kotel, the Western Wall, in...