Esther Kustanowitz For President
I was drunk. And maybe I was sort of in awe of McCain’s stupid Vice Presidential pick. I mean, look, Sarah Palin is an impressive woman – but a pro NRA, anti-abortion candidate…
Happy Blog Day!
Ramadan Edition… Today, August 31st, is Blog Day. According to the BlogDay site, “it was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from…
JCafe LA’s summer-ending mega party
As you can see this is a Jewish unity event like no other in LA and Jewlicious is pleased to be a co-sponsor. Bringing together a wide variety of groups from the greater…
For real? – Indeed. – Wow! #3: Coffee
To avoid all confusion from the start, “Kaffee (= coffee)” is a very serious topic. “Kaffee” is more than a plain beverage. Kaffee is more than some warm / hot, brownish, caffeinated liquid…
Amuta 2.0 Launch Event with Jeff Pulver
I like Jeff Pulver. He was the keynote speaker at Amuta 2.0 – an event aimed put on by Illuminea aimed at letting non-profits make use of social networking tools like facebook and…
Yechi Ha Melech Moshiach! The Fractured State of Chabad
Rebbe Menachem M. Schneerson, head of the Chabad Lubavitch Hassidic movement died in 1994. But don’t tell that to the Meshichtim, a vocal group within the movement who believe that Schneerson is the…
The blessing and the curse
Moshe places before the Jewish people a choice. If we choose one way, we will be blessed and if we choose another way we will be cursed. This choice is both on the…
Last Night at the Jerusalem Beer Festival
Last night in Jerusalem was the annual Beer Festival. Apparently according to this photo I was there with ROI120 alum Sasha, Jana visiting from Moscow and Yevgeniya, also an ROI120 alum who left…
McCain Chooses Mooseburgers over Pineapples
The call came early this week to our Upper West Side headquarters, where our operatives were screening Jewish films, reading Jewish books, trying to pick some films for Schmoozedance 2009, and trying to…
על כל 2 יהודים יש 3 בלוגים
David Abitbol and Jewlicious are featured in a big article in Globes. Thanks are due to the heavy publicity surrounding the Bibi vs. Jewlicious debate at the Nefesh B’ Nefesh Bloggers Conference. This…
Bethany Serota – Welcome Home!
On my recent flight to Israel with Nefesh B’Nefesh, I briefly met Bethany Batya Serota. A recent Law School graduate, Batya made aliyah with the assistance of NBN from her former home in…
Some ‘Lish Photos: Girls in the Israeli Army
Serial No. 3817131 is the title of Photographer Rachel Papo’s latest essay, showing the everyday routine of girls in the Israeli Army. Some photos look like the ones my brother took of us…
Simcha Levenberg is a legend
Simcha Levenberg @ Ha Ha Cafe I met Reb Simcha last summer when he joined us with his family for a special Shabbaton up in the Santa Cruz mountains. Simcha has always been…
Hitler’s Jewish Threesome
Hey, even genocidal dictators have, you know, needs… We all know the revulsion (to say the least) that Hitler felt for Jews. But apparently that revulsion didn’t extend to totally hot babes. In…
Big Hilltop Shabbat
Masada Sunrise Shabbat shalom everybody! (image from the talented Adarhay – check out this lovely)
Da Annual Heritage Night
Where else can you snag a Giants scarf in Hebrew and snarf down kosha dawgs and He’Brew?
If Chinese Gymnasts Had Bat Mitzvah’s and Other Post Olympic Ideas
As Shabbat begins, and the sun sets on the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, my thoughts include: If Chinese female gymnasts were forced to become Jewish at the sino-shul ( www.SinoGogue.org ), then we…
10 Things To Look For At The Olympic Closing Ceremony
10 Things To Look For At The Olympic Closing Ceremony—From the WOOT blog by Scott Lydon & Jason Toon 200,000 pizzas sent to “Chinese Taipei” Ceremonial lighting of the Tibetan monk Entire crowd…
Post Conference
Yesterday I participated in the Nefesh B’Nefesh International Jewish Bloggers Conference. I’ll write about that some more later – for those of you just dying to see how it went you can visit…
It’s a Jam for the Ladies: Discovery Channel’s Josh Bernstein
Emma Rosenblum at NewYork Magazine recently got to hang out with and profile the dreamy host of the Discovery Channel’s Digging for the Truth show, Josh Bernstein. Emma’s assignment was to go on…
The Bloggers Have Landed! Along with 240 Nefesh B’Nefesh Olim…
Well, I am back. I flew in to Israel yesterday morning on a chartered El Al flight. Joining me were 240 olim – new Israeli immigrants who made it to Israel from the…
Shai Agassi: Wired Magazine Cover Boy and his Electric car!
Looking over at the new September 2008 cover of Wired Magazine, I spied a familiar face – Shai Agassi, the electric car evangelist who has spoken at the Presidents Conference, ROI120, innumerable college…
Jewels of Elul IV
Rick Warren, Pastor of Megachurch in Saddelback, is not the only communal leader that has Obama and McCain on a joint billing. LA musican, composer, and impresario of great community programs, Craig Taubman,…
On my way back home…
I am sitting in El Al’s King David Lounge about to fly to Israel on a flight chartered by Nefesh B’Nefesh which will bring about 225 new Olim to Israel. Jameel and Treppenwitz…
The Best of Love Fest
As great as it all was… It wasn’ t Rabbi Yonah and Rachel Bookstein‘s Instant Matchmaking, hot kosha buffet or the chocolate Fun-Jew. It wasn’t the rad goodie bags from Modern Tribe and…
