November 22, 2011 Finding Zion in Libya By Zachary Babtkis As I watched a streaming video of 56-year-old David Gerbi hack away at a wall of brick and mortar surrounding his childhood synagogue in Tripoli, Libya, I couldn’t help but facepalm. To me, his tears and apoplectic bre...
November 14, 2011 Greece: A Porn Fallacy By Zachary Babtkis Tsk, tsk. Heracles would be ashamed. Greece has come a damn long way since the days of Aristophanes and men flying through the air on chariots (that’s what the ancient Greeks did, right?). Really, my most prominent mem...