NorCal: Get On The Jewlicious Bus
Do you live in Northern California? Yeah? You like it? Cool. So uh… whatcha doin’ between the 9th and the 11th of March? We got this Jewlicious Festival thang going on in Long…
Chronicle of Kashrut Vol. 3: Passover Herring Crisis
Back in the old country you took some herring and some some oil and some salt and poof- shmaltz herring. if you were really shnazzy, you used wine, vinegar and spices for some…
Rubinstein plays Liszt
For Tom. Oh heck, at the risk of pissing of my co-posters here at Jewlicious, here’s Jascha Heifetz playing Bach. Listen for the moment when he first comes in.
Team Groggerforce, Activate!
Form of…a noisemaker…shape of…an online petition campaign against nuclear attack. Love Hillel? Love Purim? Hate the threat of an imminent nuclear attack by Iran? (Yeah, me too.) Predicated on the link between Purim…
Attend an anti-Israel event on campus and get beat up
In her column today, Caroline Glick tells us the following stories for which it appears she used as a source the following Frontpage mag article: At an “Israel Apartheid Week” event at City…
The Naked Archeologist Strikes Back
Just when we’d recovered from the buzz of “Naked Archeologist” Simcha Jacobovici’s “Exodus Decoded” documentary, we turn on the news to discover James Cameron (who narrated “Exodus Decoded”) talking about his and Jacobovici’s…
Oleh Records recording artist my second surprise at Jewlicious Festival
my second surprise is pretty much a one-man-act. The person behind this title is Ayal Nistor, who has recently moved from Tel Aviv, Israel – to San Francisco, USA, after spending a period…
Muffti wonders why it is that
Israeli’s smoke Hezbollah hash? Oh yeah, for reasons like this: Two Israelis who apparently thought moving from Tel Aviv to settlements in the West Bank would provide a smokescreen for their cannabis-growing operation…
A Kiss begets a New Threat to Israeli Democracy
First there was a young woman. She did or did not act flirtatiously and warmly around Israel’s Minister of Justice, Haim Ramon. He, after being hugged quite tightly by the young soldier, seemed…
“West Bank Story” Wins Oscar
Laya brought this short film to our attention back in 2005. Since then, the film has been invited to another 75 film festivals and has won awards at 25 of them. Tonight it…
Secrets of Screenwriting
When we give you Hollywood, well, we go all out. This year we are VERY pleased to welcome the gifted Jewish screenwriter, Doug Miro, to Jewlicious. Doug co-wrote the screenplay to the movie…
Shabbat in the Uttermost West
From Jerusalem to the “Great Fringe of the Diaspora”, as my hostess calls it, in just 28 hours on harrowing travel. I’m in the always-beautiful City by the Bay, staying the weekend at…
Is everyone batshit?
(cross-posted from Kosher Eucharist) I was browsing through the sites that link to Jewlicious today, and I stumbled upon a most curious post on Israpundit. Now, I was fuzzily aware that Israpundit was…
Israel expresses ‘profound regret’ for Canaanite expulsion.
(cross-posted from Kosher Eucharist) JERUSALEM (AP) — Meeting on the grounds of the Ophel, former site of the Jebusite city of Jerusalem, the Israeli Knesset voted unanimously Saturday to express “profound regret” for…
The HIV and The Snip
This is ck’s nephew Eyal – the latest member of Jewlicious to get snipped, thus reducing his chances of getting HIV. Yes. He is indeed giving you the finger. This story isn’t really…
“Wailing Wall” Shabbat
For many years the Christian appelation for the Western Wall at the Temple Mount has been Wailing Wall. As in, the Jews wail when they come to it. On a visit to the…
Jews Geekng Out at NY Comic Con
I admit it. Maybe it was all the subscriptions to Wired and Business 2.0 and other things that shocked my parents in a long-overdue rebellion. But this year, I considered something I’d never…
A Weekend of Celebrating Israel; Feasting on Learning
Two coasts, two celebrations in the shortest month of the Gregorian calendar year… New York celebrates Israel “L’lo Hefsek”; the Manhattan JCC has a whole weekend of Israel-related activities, from humus tasting to…
Chronicle of Kashrut Vol. 2: After Shabbat Dinner Liqueur
This just in from the OU, although it could have come from the Coffee Addicts Society: Starbucks Coffee Liqueur is OU Pareve. Although not all the bottles have this designation written on it….
Sooners do Jewlicious
A delegation of Oklahoma Sooners from the University of Oklahoma are making the pilgrmage out to Jewlicious Festival! At least seven sooners are expected to make the journey. Thanks to the initiative and…
כשאין עוד מקום בגיהנום, המתים יהלכו על פני האדמה
(cross-posted from Kosher Eucharist) Being something of a writerly-minded person, I suffer from a tendency to view everything in terms of comparison – my mind rarely bothers to process what something is, settling…
A visit from Uncle Michael!
I know I may have expressed some misgivings about the character of my Uncle Michael, but it turns out that although he may be a little scruffy and disreputable (doesn’t he have an…
Oh, it seems Jews also invented the penis extender and the gramophone
Okay, okay, it’s a Corvette and only some people use it in the manner described above while others are quite fond of its sporty feel and powerful engine, but aren’t you proud that…
Inventor of Remote Control Passes Away
Theories about Jewish media control notwithstanding, it appears the Jewish people may be responsible for the couch potato. Robert Adler has passed away at the age of 93. A physicist with 180 patents…
