Jewish Film Competition
2009 COMPETITION NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS GRAND PRIZE $1000 or Trip to Festival Are you the next Spielberg, Brooks, Allen or Coen Brothers? Want your film to be seen around the country? Create…
Al Tal v’al Matar Shabbat
Tel Aviv Beach in Storm Half a million people have lost their jobs in the past month in the US of A. 600,000 have stopped looking for work entirely. These are official figures…
Xmas Eve for Yids; Jew Variety Shows
Just added to the Sephardic Music Festival line up is the Dec 24th Show. X-mas eve is Jewish Tradition in New York. City Winery is serving more than Matza Balls, but a evening…
Another Unfortunate Way That Israel Parallels the U.S.
Y’all are getting fat. Maybe go easy on the Latkes this hannuka? We’ve got enough people trying to kill us. No need to do it for them. From Jpost: The number of Israelis…
Zohan and the Quest for Jewish Utopia
That’s the title of an essay by Michael B. Oren that appeared in the latest issue of Azure Online. Oren manages to weave together Herzl, the First Zionist Congress, Emma Lazarus, Henrietta Szold,…
Oy, what’s a Spaniard to do?
The New York Times tells us that Jewish genetic material runs rampant among Spaniards. Spain and Portugal have a history of fervent Catholicism, but almost a third of the population now turns out…
Celebrate Hanukkah Live in Concert
Alberto Mizrachi and Michelle Citrin sing a duet. The Klezmatics tearing it up with Joshua Nelson in Yiddish and Gospel favs. Craig Tuabman’s heartwarming sounds. Where can you check this out? PBS. This…
Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg buried in Jerusalem
Yesterday night, Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg were buried together on the Mt. Of Olives in Jerusalem, in a plot overlooking the Kodesh Kedoshim. I’ve tried to write this post so many times…
Matisyahu & Sephardic Music Fest Ticket GIVEAWAYS!
Shemspeed.com and JTA are giving away Matisyahu tickets for each of his upcoming NY shows, along with tickets to the upcoming Sephardic Music Festival. With tickets to 19 shows, Shemspeed has got the…
Iran’s New Missile
On Wednesday November 26, 2008, Iran launched a missile into space. The “Kavoshgar 2,” or Explorer 2, reached an altitude of 200 kilometer (125 miles) prior to its return. The missile was gone…
My Heroic Friends Rivky and Gabi Holtzberg
Hillary Lewin (pictured on the right) is a PhD candidate at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology (Yeshiva University) and spent five memorable weeks in Mumbai with Yeshiva University on a Global Health…
International AIDS Day in Jerusalem
Yeah, this is Jerusalem! Just got back from The International AIDS Day celebrations at a bar called Katzeh in Jerusalem. Proceeds of the evening’s party went to fund the Open Clinic a medical…
