Humble like clusters of grapes
The Midrash states (Midrash – Vayikra Raba 36:2) “Just as a grape vine has large and small clusters and the large clusters hang lower, so too with the Jewish people: Whoever labors in…
Shabbat a la Jewdas
This is the one and only authentic TheMiddle shabbat post. Shabbat shalom and enjoy the pickles. Photo comes from Jewdas’s party.
Hamas clarifies their position
Photo credit: Ynetnews.com A Palestinian suicide bomber, dressed as a Haredi Jew, blew himself up in a car driven by an Israeli couple who had just picked him up while he was hitchhiking…
You in LA? Got nothing to do tonight?
Hook up with The Tribe The Tribe is an award-winning film about the unorthodox, unauthorized history of the Jewish people and the Barbie doll…in about 15 minutes. Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca…
Interesting Israel Election Stats
From Ha’aretz: According to the final results, Kadima now has 29 seats, Labor has 20, Shas and Likud have 12 each, Yisrael Beiteinu has 11, National Union-National Religious Party has nine, Pensioners’ Party…
Warhol’s “Jewish Geniuses”
From Ynet London’s National Portrait Gallery has opened an exhibit of enigmatic artist Andy Warhol’s Jewish Personalities. The paintings showed in London date from 1980 and display in brilliant color portraits of Jewish…
Uh oh, in a real shocker Hamas threatens violence
Don’t ever say that we at Jewlicious don’t bring you breathtaking and breaking news. Hat tip to Ynetnews.com for this one. That’s right, that fine anti-Israel British paper, The Guardian, informs us that…
Madonna European Tour to End in Tel Aviv?
Israel’s expensive. I mean, it’s a place where Madonna tickets go for 820 Euro. This is extremely expensive since you can buy similar tickets to see Her Kabbaliciousness at Berlin’s Max Schmeling Halle…
Seder Survival Guide Contest
Brought to you by Jewlicious and When Do We Eat? Did you ever type in Jewlicious.com, but then cock your head to the side and think “Jewlicious, what have you done for me…
Soporific Electorate Destroys the Right, Encourages the Left, Loves the Elderly
(image from Ynetnews.com) Well, it looks as if Olmert is the next Prime Minister of Israel. You may think this is a sure thing, but it still has to play out as Kadima…
Election Day in Israel
And almost no one is voting. Adding to the often backwards and sometimes Alice in Wonderland-like nature of this country, early reports say this will be the lowest voter turnout ever in Israeli…
My Phone is Frummer Than Your Phone
With their instant access to kol-isha-laden ringtones, frivolous purchasing via e-commerce, spam email touting Viagra, illicit and grammatically incorrect text messaging and potentially pornariffic photos, it seems fairly clear that cellular telephones are…
Scarlett Johansson voted Sexiest Woman of the Year
Step aside Angelina So say the readers of FHM Magazine. Now, FHM is a magazine for idiot men, sort of like the male version of Cosmo, but you really can’t fault them for…
Maggid: A Journal of Jewish Literature Rocks it at T’mol Shilshom
Edited by Michael P. Kramer, Maggid is an annual publication showcasing the best new Jewish writing, in all genres, from around the world illustrating the range and variety of Jewish lives from North…
When Jewish Music Attacks…
First, there was Matisyahu. And now, there’s this song by The Chevra that’s been runnin’ round me noggin’ since Rabbi Yonah sent me the original video clip from Google Video. Worth a view,…
Jewish Brit Hipsters Gone Wild!
Hello? Anglo-Jewish Hipsters? Malcolm McLaren is on the phone and he wants his graphics back! Damn. I was just in London and I missed this? The Guardian last week reported on an event…
Israeli Elections for Dummies
If you’re like me, all this talk of “we’re in Israel, we’re so great” that half of this site’s writers engage in is getting to be a little too much, and when it…
…or Halakchot to follow.
Maybe Rabbi Yonah could be so kind as to post something informative as to whether or not curses on current political leaders is an abuse of power on behalf of Rabbis of Influence….
As if we needed any new sins to commit…
…voting for Kadima apparently applies. National Religious Party’s spiritual leader Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu has declared it so. Voting for any party which supported disengagement is, as decided by him, a sin. He explained…
Hate Site of the Weak #12
The Muff, trying to provide the best in weak hate sites, brings you a bunch of despicable people devoted to the perversion of Christian ideals. Not surprisingly, they are called ‘the Christian Party’…
Shabbat shalom
(source) We also wish ck’s nephew, Jordan (Nissim ben Rachel), a healthy and speedy recovery. We wish all of you and your families a peaceful shabbat.
The holiness of being whole
The parsha starts with “Vayakheil”. The plain, simple meaning of that word here, is that Moshe brought the entire Jewish People together. From the context, it seems abundantly clear that the reason Moshe…
Seriously, if there is a God…
How is it possible that both Duke and Gonzaga men’s basketball teams lost their games last night? Now what do we do?
Because we were slaves (Avadim Hayinu)
The Jewish peoples’ Exodus from Egypt is arguably the main event in the Torah narrative. Three millennia later we are called to remember it every day in our prayers, every week on Shabbat,…
The Matisyahu Controversy and the Wisdom of Homer
There’s been a bit of controversy of late regarding Matisyahu’s decision to drop his JDub management team and instead go with former Capitol Records president Gary Gersh, the man said to have discovered…
Jawohl, mein Rabbi.
Suppose someone has the nerve to build a combined Jewish/Arab school with the goal of teaching tolerance in a southwest Jerusalem neighborhood. Then suppose you’re a kabbalist currently being groomed for the unofficial…
