The Insight Fellowship: An Innovative Young Jewish Leadership Initiative
From the people that brought you such innovative programs like Leading Up North and ROI120 comes the Insight Fellowship – a bold and audacious program aimed at getting a select group of young…
Jews and Obama
I know some Jewish voters who plan to vote for Barack Obama. I know some who plan to vote for Hillary Clinton. I even know two who will vote for the Republican nominee…
If only Muffti lived in NYC…
Do they also cater to philosophers? :) Jewish doctors, lawyers and business executives too busy for the formal study of their faith can now order in religious lessons, thanks to an organization whose rabbis…
One Sees Samba Art, One Just Sees Holocaust Victims and Hitler
Weird story about Carnivale floats. CK, do we have the funds to send Muffti on an investigative journalism mission? From Jpost: A judge issued an order Thursday prohibiting a Rio samba group from…
A Storm of Snow and Moguls…
This is what I woke up to yesterday morning. Winter in Jerusalem is already difficult enough but when you add snow to the mix, oy… what a balagan (mess). The last couple of…
The Little Button on the Right
Some of you may notice a little button on the right where for the first time ever, Jewlicious is asking for a donation. It’s actually not Jewlicious but Jewlicious Festivals, which is run…
Important Service Announcement
Sometimes the NY Times can be a very useful publication and today is one of those days. Just in time for the Super Bowl party near your home, they provide us with a…
Let’s Play!
This one’s for all the Yiddishists, linguists, procrastinators, and plainly bored people out there. This wordmaze contains 30 words that have entered English through Yiddish. They can be written horizontally, vertically, diagonally, and…
L’chaim, anyone?
Apparently anything can be made treif: introducing Bacon Vodka. Existing at the nexus of raw pork and fine spirits, the Brownie Points culinary blog gives us this creation, perhaps the most audacious attempt…
A New Spirit: The Next Generation of Jewish Music
TIFERET VILLAGE and SHEMSPEED present A New Spirit: The Next Generation of Jewish Music New Sounds of Emerging Artists & Round Table Talk Wednesday, January 30, 2008 7:00 PM CAFE NANA, Columbia/Barnard Hillel…
I think I know I mean a “Yes” but it’s all wrong, that is I think I disagree
Israel ‘apologized’ for a rather odd 43 year old standing ban on the Beatles with a belated invitation to play in Israel. The Beatles were slated to play in 1965 but were banned…
Boteach, Diamant and Beery Among Top 5 Professorship Candidates
I’m thrilled to announce that my friend and PresenTense Magazine editor/publisher Ariel Beery was named a finalist in the Charles R. Bronfman Visiting Chair in Jewish Communal Innovation competition run by Brandeis University,…
Eli Valley gives us yet another Jewish history lesson
I laughed, I cried… Visit Eli’s newly published revised history of the Jews. Why isn’t this guy writing for us?
Kosha Dillz Jewlicious drop/freestyle
Kosha Dillz with a shout out for Jewlicious Kosha Dillz is an upcoming Israeli American hip hop artist that has put the Zionist swagger back in being Jewish. A flashy pinky ring style…
Incubate Me!
NYC, Center of the Jewish World? Maybe. One could make that argument. There are certainly lots of Jews there, also, lots of Jewish stuff – religious, cultural, all kinds of events and activities….
Apparently, Hillary Likes the Jews
According to the JTA, Susie Stern, the immediate past chair of the board of the UJA, and Steve Grossman, past president of AIPAC, have decided to come out with their support for Clinton’s…
Oy, the guilt…
Another gem from the highly beloved Overheard site: Four-year-old boy to stranger: Do you have a little boy? 30-ish single man: No, not yet. Four-year-old boy: Why not? 30-ish single man: Because I…
Outrage Over Yiddish Leads To Groundbreaking Sundance Film: The Anxious Search To Document Dying Languages
Sundance Film Festival Sundance coverage day 3 In 1999, Seth Kramer was on location in Vilnius, Lithuania, directing RESISTANCE: UNTOLD STORIES OF JEWISH PARTISANS. His excellent guide, a local historian, pointed out that…
Harley Davidson in Israel
I did a clip for Israel21c on Harley Davidson aficionados in Israel. That was fun. You know what else is fun? Israel21c’s new Web site – check it out. Vroooooom!
Why is this issue being kept under wraps?
Jewish women? Wearing burqas and abayas/jilbab? In Ramat Beit Shemesh? Haaretz reported recently of a group of charedi women who, under the tutelage of a Rebbetzin Bruria Keren, have sought to take tznius…
NYC Feb 6th: Is the Internet Good for the Jews? Online Community, Blogging and Ethics
Further to my previous article, it looks like the Jewish Week is going to be a hosting a lecture titled “Is the Internet Good for the Jews? Online Community, Blogging and Ethics.” The…
Jewish Blogistan?
Two articles came to my attention today, both dealing with the Jewish blogosphere. One, which appeared in Haaretz, was written by a cranky imbecile and is so laughably self-congratulatory and hypocritical that I…
Stupid, ignorant, or downright tasteless?
Despite being urged to by the German Jewish Council as well as former Bavarian ‘Ministerpräsident’ (comparable to US American ‘governor’) Edmund Stoiber, the city of Munich will not refrain from holding its Carnival…
Ein Kerem Shabbat
Jerusalem Ein -Kerem oil on canvas, 1993 43.3 x 55.1 in. / 110 x 140 cm Michael Kovner is the artist (and image source is Israelartguide). SHABBAT SHALOM!!
Hitler Rap
He’s back! But it’s ok because he’s a rapper not a genocidal maniac. Ok. That was completely retarded. Shabat Shalom.
Who you calling ‘secular?’
Writing in the Washington Post earlier this month, the eminent Jewish history professor Jonathan Sarna (pictured right) praised the PBS documentary “The Jewish Americans” for its depiction of Jews as people who landed…
