A Holocaust Commemoration That Rocks?
If you’re anything like me, when it comes to commemorating the Holocaust, you probably think: “I want my MTV!!” Well, now you will. MTV has announced the airing of I’m Still Here, a…
Tsnius is in part III
The trend ck spotted long ago is here with a vengeance. What Yeshiva girl wouldn’t love wearing these new designs, hot off the runway from Belgian fashion designer Dries Van Noten? Note the…
Kabbalah Energy Drink
This is getting ridiculous already… There’s a new energy drink in town and the Red Bull people are cowering in fear! Not only do they have to contend with celebrity endorsements by either…
Two Suspended for Acting Like Jews
Two boys were suspended by a Michigan high school in Avondale for wearing Kippahs. Outraged? About to phone the ACLU? Muffti would be except but for the fact that offending kippah wearers Michael…
Israeli Chicks are Fierce
First they pull you off rooftops, then they break your heart – the women of the Israel Police Jewschool may have Suicide Girls but we promote strong women and positive role models –…
Ha’aretz has lost it
Okay, I have to admit that Ha’aretz’s website redesign is not working for me. I don’t like the layout of the news very much, and this is the minor problem. The major problem…
Why I’m Not Married: Part One
Why “Part One”? Because I’m sensin’ a series. For some reason, I seem to get a lot of mail telling me why I’m not married. Sure, most of it is spam, urging me…
He posts with brevity
I believe there is an image here that could be improved with some photoshop. It’s amazing how quickly this pending “mini-crisis” could be solved if an image was circulated of this man wearing…
Yiddish She-Devils
Yiddish Folk Tales! Klezmer music! Belly Dancing! No, this is not about my recent dating life, but rather it’s a show taking place from April 29th to June 5th at the Santa Monica…
Operation Eternal Passover: Postcard From the Front
Around Day 2 of Operation Eternal Passover (begun a day early at my parents’ New Jersey home because of Shabbat), it hit me: there were 36 hours left until I could use my…
Real Man’s Guide To Passover Cooking
Okay, so I’m reading the news and ynet has articles about cooking matzah brei replete with recipes and fond nostalgic memories. Matzah brei? That’s the best they can do? Don’t get me wrong,…
Free your mind; thoughts on Pesach
I fell in love with Judaism through a certain hippy spiritual branch of it, and many of my perspective on it are colored with that lens. It is only when I leave that…
Premarital sex on Passover?
There, got your attention. But this is just a post wishing you all a happy Passover. Everybody out there have a great chag that brings you closer to your family and friends, and…
Matzah Rap!
Yet another Passover-based animation, this time from the good folks at Jib Jab – thanks to BibleKing18 for the heads up. It’s pretty funny though a tad racy at times. Those of you…
Boombamela on my mind
Two Pesachs ago I went to a Festival in Israel called Boombamela and had a truly transformative experience. Boombamela is kind of a cross between Burning Man and Woodstock, except proudly proudly Jewish….
Philip Roth talks to Saul Bellow
The New Yorker reproduced notes taken by Philip Roth during informal conversations he had with Saul Bellow. The focus is on Bellow’s early works but the verbatim nature of the notes are reflective…
Got Shark?
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water…here’s a story to cure us all of our appetite for the foreseeable future. Three sharks were caught in Ashdod by…
Is AIPAC in some steamy doodoo?
We’ve been covering this story for a while. Here. Here. And here. Unbelievably, the third worst scenario is now playing out. AIPAC has fired the two men who are under investigation by the…
C.K. Williams is Jewlicious
C.K. Williams, who has already won a Pulitzer Prize for his poetry, today won the Lilly Prize which is awarded to one U.S. poet annually to represent an extraordinary career’s accomplishments. A quick…
Hot Palestinian Singles, waiting for You!
Uh.. so is this a new trend or what? A Palestinian singles site advertising on CampusJ, a Jewish collegiate blog? What’s that all about? Is this some kind of new trend? Maybe it’s…
Muffti Guesses Being Single Sucks for Some…
Muffti is always amazed at the meaningless statistics that are ‘newsworthy’. Of course this will confirm what many of you already thought, so you’ll believe it. And it goes against what Muffti thinks,…
The New Pope’s Zionism
Future Pope Ratzinger and IDF Paratroopers Liberate Jerusalem Jerusalem Post provides these recorded remarks from the new Pope Benedict XVI nee Ratzinger: “I think it is very important that Jews, even if they…
Major Hamas Surprise!!!!
In an amazing interview to a Dubai publication, Moussa Abu Marzouq, deputy head of the group’s political bureau, informs the world that Hamas is willing to consider entering into negotiations with Israel if:…
Rabbi David S. Fine is Jewlicious!
and Jewschoolicious as well… So imagine you’re at the airport in Kansas, on your way to catch a flight to New York, when all of a sudden some total idiot shows up wearing…
Pope Benedict XVI’s teen years
So the world has a new Pope. I am kinda disapointed that it’s not the Jewish Cardinal from France, Lustiger, but I’ll get over that. Popular custom has it that a Jewish Pope…
