Jewish Community Goes Virtual in Second Life
(In parts excerpted from/inspired by my JTA post, available in its entirety here.] The non-techheads among you might not know what Second Life is. But people in the know are aware that Second…
Bitter Chocolate – Not Kosher for Passover?
Say NO to Chocolate this Passover With Passover right around the corner, I was thinking about kosher for Passover products. Which ones are good, which ones are so-so and which ones just miss….
The Story of JewTube.com
The Internet’s a funny place and Jews are a funny people. When the two collide, hilarity is sure to ensue. Let’s look at domain names for instance. You have a Jewish Internet project?…
Shabbat Ha Gadol Drasha
In his sefer “Eish Kodesh”, Holy Fire, which was written in the Warsaw ghetto, the Piasetzner Rebbe [Pieseczny] offers a beautifully simple explanation of ‘Shabbat Hagadol’. The Rebbe explained: When I accept upon…
In Haggadah Da Vida
Reboot LA, Storahtelling, and VeryHotJews.com are celebrating Passover with a twist. IN HAGGADAH DA VIDA is the name of their Passover seder/feast/happening on Tues., April 3 at 6pm at hot L.A. club The…
Still Blogging the Good Blog…
I don’t “own this bitch,” or any other bitch for that matter, not even literally am I the owner of a female dog. Still, I’m proud to share two publication notes this week…
Who Knows One? I Know one. One is the Hip Hop Hagaddah
Don’t break your back to talkradio or NPR cleaning your house this weekend. Don’t wipe out Chometz to dull Jewish rhythms. Put on SoCalled’s Hip Hop Hagaddah for an entirely alternative and enjoyable…
Banging out a Bride
That sounds wrong, I know. But this post is just to wish mazal tov to BangitOut.com co-founder Seth Galena and Montrealer/existential sister Hindy Poupko on their engagement. And because there’s nothing like sharing…
RIP, Paul Cohen
You’ve probably never heard of him unless you are a logician or logic groupie (Muffti has yet to verify the existence of the latter!), but Paul Cohen was a leading logician and mathematician….
The “new right”
From what I understand (or tried to, for a recent paper) the French have something like neoconservatism. It’s quite a bit like the US variety, except that its proponents are more likely to…
אוויר הרים צלול כיין
Transliterated, the title of this post reads “Avir harim tsalul ka’yayin…” These are the opening words of Naomi Shemer’s song, Jerusalem of Gold. As soon as I hear that refrain, I immediately start…
Kissing An Arab
Last week, the Forward ran a story titled “When Love Is a Casualty of War.” The war in question was the (officially named) Second Lebanon War and the love in question was that…
Freedom from Slavery
As Passover approaches, I find that people seek to explore certain ideas. I found this interesting: From Rav Kook: ============== Who is Free? The main theme of the Passover holiday is, undoubtedly, freedom….
Arab Lesbians Hold Rally in Israel
Muffti believes that we have touched upon this theme before, but here’s an update. Haifa was the site of a public rally held by Arab lesbians. The conference was called ‘Home and Exile…
Crack is Wack; Pot is Not (Kosher For Passover)
So much for using marijuana as Karpas. Yes, it’s leafy and yes, it’s green. But apparently, hemp seeds are not kosher for Passover. That is, if you’re Ashkenazi. The seeds belong to a…
Festival of Chametz at The Knitting Factory, 3/31
Going into Pesach, it’s hard to give up your beloved carbalicious Chametz. But maybe if you do it at the Knitting Factory (74 Leonard Street), surrounded by great Israeli culture–music, film and spoken…
He runs this bitch?
Dan Sieradski, also known as Mobius, the founder of Jewschool.com recently wrote a post titled Let It Be Said: We Run This Bitch. In it he does an adequate job of describing the…
Wanted: birthright Couples to Procreate on TV for Yom Ha’atzma’ut
OK, so not exactly. But the call has gone out around the world: Israeli TV wants to do a segment on birthright israel, specifically on couples who have met through the program. Despite…
Hookas suck
Hookas, nargilahs, exotic water pipes are everywhere—cafes, homes, dorm rooms. It has become so ubiquitous that Hillel’s have joined the fray, offering “Hookah in the Sukkah.” (Every program title must rhythm apparently.) Along…
Ugh, natalism
I haven’t written for Jewlicious in a bit, but I do still read the blog regularly, and feel I have to comment: Rabbi Yonah’s post on war and Jewish babies was hopefully tongue-in-cheek,…
JTS Opens Doors to Gay and Lesbian Students
This from JTS Chancellor-elect (yes, amazing that all of this happens before he’s officially even the chancellor) Arnie Eisen, via a JTS press release: “I believe, along with the great majority of my…
Shabbes
(Okay, so it’s not that interesting to see ultra-Orthodox Jews calling out “shabbes” as they watch people doing (forbidden) work on the sabbath. Ahh, the comments explain that they are yelling at non-Jewish…
America’s Top 50 Rabbis
What do you do for fun if you’re Sony Pictures CEO and Chairman Michael Lynton, Gary Ginsberg, of Newscorp and Jay Sanderson of the Jewish Television Network? Meet every Thursday for Poker night?…
Alice Shalvi Is to Receive Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement
So is Dov Lautman, founder of Delta Galil, one of the world’s largest sock, underwear and other apparel manufacturers, and current president of the Israel Manufacturers Association. He truly is a legend in…
War is good for having Jewish babies
According to Israeli HMO data: “the number of women now in their fifth, sixth or seventh month of pregnancy was 35 percent higher than the figure a year ago. ” It means that…
