For my meteorologically challenged friends
I’ve just checked the Brooklyn weather forecast online, and thought you could do with a little extra sunshine over there.
Israeli version of Jewish Amy Winehouse
I don’t know….I think I just wrote that title to grab your attention. I hate when writers compare lesser known stuff to bigger more popular things just so that it could get the…
Roasting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
My schtick around here typically centers around Jewish books. But when I saw this article in the Onion, I couldn’t resist venturing away from my usual confines in order to bring to you…
Soref School Tix Yo!
Thanks to Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life, and the Soref Emerging Campus Initiative, http://www.smallandmighty.org/, if you go to a school listed at their website (and listed below) Hillel will subsidize your…
Dimona
I think there’s no need to recount what happened in Dimona yesterday. I think no blog entry we could publish will resolve the conflict. I know no blog entry we could publish will…
Hot Jewish Writers
Hot Jewish Writers at Jewlicious Festival 4.0 Long Beach / LA Feb. 29-Mar. 2, 2008 Adam Mansbach’s upcoming novel, The End of the Jews: A Novel, will be published in March 2008 by…
Going Green @ Jewlicious Festival
Since the very first Jewlicious Festival in 2005, we have discussed Judaism and the environment. We’ve highlighted “greenkeit” from recycling in Jerusalem to ecology and Judaism. Last year we stopped printing the programs…
When American Jewish Hipsters Build Potemkin Villages in Berlin
Jüdische Allgemeine has brought an article by Gideon Lewis-Kraus to my attention in which Lewis-Kraus questions the authenticity of German Jewish life in Berlin. Lewis-Kraus points out that Jewish life in Berlin is…
From Jerusalem to New York
Dear New York, First of all I wanted to congratulate you on the miraculous victory of the New York Giants over the New England Patriots in last night’s Super Bowl. My good friend…
We’re all Commenting on it so What the Hell
Pats 14-Giants 17 Perhaps there is a God after all. Muffti is pretty happy since as a Dolphins fan, he only really has the ’72 season to take pride in. Here’s what seemed…
URB NEXT 1000
Even Urb Magazine is on the Jewish Music Hip Hop Tip!!! The linguistic mystic known as Y-Love, who will be heading to Jewlicious at the end of the month, just got listed in…
Erykah Badu: Yeah she’s a twit…
…but at least she’s entertaining! Erykah Badu’s recent visit to Israel began inauspiciously last Thursday when she told reporters and Israeli fans that she identified with Palestinian hip-hop and then expressed support for…
Edan, the best Israeli MC
who doesn’t rhyme in hebrew… Edan a.k.a. the Humble Magnificent a.k.a. the Rap Beautician just performed super human rap tricks displaying his lyrical gymnastic super phat scratch shtick and modulating vocal synth style…
A couple of notes
A. Make sure to keep tracking Gila Weiss’s My Shrapnel blog. It is, without a doubt, one of the most compelling blogs I have ever read. Slowly, slowly, but with beautiful writing, Gila…
Hula Valley Shabbat
Hulah Valley or Hula Valley (in Hebrew: עמק החולה, `Emeq ha-Hūlāh) is region in northern Israel and is an important bottleneck site for birds migrating along the Syrian-African Rift Valley between Africa, Europe,…
Sarah Silverman is Fucking Matt Damon?
More proof that he writers’ strike is putting a serious dent on the availability of celebrities for late night appearances on talk shows: A guest on her longtime boyfriend, Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show…
