Time is Money
Imagine you are driving on the freeway and see hundreds of dollars passing by every moment. You can’t grab the cash as you drive, but you see it get completely wasted, $100 at…
First Legal Women’s Prayer Service at the Western Wall in Decades
Protest gets violent at Women of the Wall’s first prayer service at the Kotel after landmark court decision; will conflict escalate in the Middle East after Israel’s strike on Syria?; Meredith Ganzman speaks…
Hipster Glasses? Not Kosher!
Oh hipsters. Time Out New York begged us to kill them in 2007. Indeed, hipsters have suffered a slow and lingering decline since – dying but not quite dead yet. The snarky art…
Girl, Wake The F$@K Up!
I am sick and tired of your insecurities! I wish there was a way for me to give you confidence; but I am aware that life is not that simple. Too many women (and…
Shavuot: Bedtime for Bibi
Guest Post by Yonatan Sredni Last Friday night, Israel’s Channel 10 reported that, as per the Prime Minister’s office’s specific request, a special “rest chamber” was installed in the airplane which took Prime…
ROI 2013: Who Are You?
The final list of participants in the 2013 iteration of the ROI Summit was released recently. The ROI summit is an annual gathering that brings together a select group of 150 young Jews…
Jam in the Van with Kosha Dillz & catch him on Tour!
Today a series of live performance music videos have come out via Jam in the Van, basically a “Bang Bus” on wheels for bands that creates multiple music videos inside a good ol’…
Israel Increasingly Ensnared in Syrian Civil War
Reactions to Israel’s strike of Syria; Jewish community unites against sex trafficking; Jewish billionaire-philanthropist Michael Steinhardt auctions off Judaica collection at Sotheby’s; and The Acting Company turns 40; and novelist Maggie Anton sits…
Mother’s Day: Redefined
There are tons of stereotypes about women… the overbearing matriarch, the do-it-all maven, the neurotic meshugennah, the your-business-is-my-business yenta. You might embody an aspect of one or none of these. You might love…
Revealed and Concealed: Shavuot Learning Celebration in Los Angeles
Shavuot isn’t one of the most popular of Jewish holydays. We aim to do something about that. So, back by popular demand, Jewlicious is teaming up with IKAR for an evening of lively…
Follow up on Anne Frank Diary Censorship Post…
Quite a bit of hullabaloo on that Anne Frank post – apparently, one can’t mention Anne Frank and, you know, Lady Parts without offending both Suburban Moms and certain commenters here and on…
From JDate to Sex Tape: Farrah Abraham
Back in the day, Farrah Abraham was a nice Christian high school girl from Council Bluffs, Iowa. Like any 16 year old, she had hopes and aspirations – her plan was to go…
Women’s Prayer Services Now Legal at the Western Wall
New court decision for women at the Western Wall; progress toward Israeli-Palestinian peace, via the Arab League; Israeli designer Elie Tahari’s unlikely journey to the heights of the fashion world; author Rachel Shukert…
Shabbat Tent Rocks Coachella
Four days of dust, heat, masses of tripping festival-goers, thumping never-ending bass, welcoming random visitors from around the planet, various combinations of food, munchy snacks and refreshments, sleeping in cars, handing out flyers,…
Jason Collins: Black, Gay; and Jewish Piggybacking
Earlier this week, in a well-orchestrated series of events, NBA basketball athlete Jason Collins came out as a gay man and became the first active athlete on a major American sports team to…
Jewlicious Book of the Week: Marc Maron Attempts Normal
Marc Maron is a top American observational stand-up comedian and podcaster who is familiar with Israel (his earlier book was on the “Jerusalem Syndrome,” in which pilgrims get all messianic after visiting the…
Gambling Mensch Wins Student International Jewish Film Competition
Gambling Mensch, a nine-minute film from San Francisco State University Student filmmaker Jason Zavaleta, was announced today as the winner of the Best Picture, of the The Student International Jewish Film Competition, The…
Diwon’s Try Stopping (Out Now)
The moment has arrived! ‘Try Stopping’, the first single off Diwon’s forthcoming album, “New Game” came out today. The single premiered on The DJ Booth and could be downloaded from iTunes, amazon, bandcamp…
Suburban Detroit Mom Says No to Reading about Anne Frank’s Vagina
Gail Horalek, a parent in Northville, Michigan, filed a formal complaint with the local School Board after her 7th Grade daughter was assigned to read “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.”…
Would You Like Fries With That Shake Mr. President?
McDonalds Israel put together this ad in order to promote their “Big America” Burger – it’s a big “All-Beef” patty that comes in 6 different flavors, each named and themed after a city…
Investigation Reveals Second Questionable Identity With Connections to Broyde’s Scholarship
A new TJC News investigation reveals another questionable identity associated with Judaic and legal scholar Rabbi Michael Broyde; a profile of formerly blacklisted screenwriter Walter Bernstein; Yiddish theater goes to the circus in…
Haredim: No more walking in public with your wife!
The self proclaimed Beit Din of the Orthodox Community of Israel has released a statement warning righteous God fearing Jews against uhm… walking in public with their wives. What was once thought to…
Karma Bolice Jaffa Style
Rotem Shefy on vocals, Leat Sabbah on cello, Yaniv Teichman on the oud and Ori Dekel on percussion killed it with this awesome cover of Radio Head’s Karma Police – which they apparently…
5 Levels of Pleasure? I’ll Take One Of Each, Please. With Pleasure.
We all want to feel pleasure, and we want it now…don’t we deserve it? It’s human nature to feel that way. According to Judaism, there are five levels of pleasure, and at each…
Jewlicious News TimBits – April 23
Some people think that little news happens during the Counting of the Omer. They are mistaken. Take a look at the tidbits of news from around the web. New York Magazine reports on…
What Would Anne Frank Say to Justin Beiber?
As we reported previously, Justin Beiber visited the Anne Franke House in Amsterdam. There he signed the guest book and asserted that Anne Frank, had she been alive today, would have been a…
