Peres and Turkish PM Clash
This is an extraordinary hour long forum held at Davos about Gaza. The participants are Amr Mousa, Secretary General of the Arab League, Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary General of the UN, Recep Tayyip Erdogan…
The Humble Shoe Gets a Place of Honor in Iraq
In the Arab world, the shoe is a very powerful symbol. When Saddam Hussein was deposed and statues in his honor began to tumble, angry Iraqis would take their shoes off and whack…
Israeli Web 3.0 Technology: Introducing Headup
I spoke to Mike Darnell, man about town, artist and now head of creative marketing at Israeli High Tech start up SemantiNet, makers of a cool new Firefox plugin and online tool called…
Change: DeScribe and Y-Love
More Orthodox Rap. For a change… Find out more about this collaboration between Y-Love and new rapper DeScribe on their MySpace page. You can buy the “Change” single right here right now for…
Russian Shabbaton: Chicago Feb. 20-22: I Want a Mercedes Benz!
Huh?? Ukrainian Women That I Know Series – Part I Miss Platnum (not a typo) is not actually Russian. She’s based in Germany and is Romanian. But her horn section is called Fanfar…
Attempted Academic Boycott of Israel coming to US?
Let’s ignore for a moment the issue of American universities refusing to allow their students to participate in Israel programs or academic exchanges. A bigger issue is the attempt to boycott Israel in…
Silencing Geert Wilders
Just because he may be a little racist, doesn’t mean that Islamic fundamentalists aren’t a threat, right?
Zees T-Shirts Vill Last 1000 Years!
And why, WHY does this have to happen in a German t-shirt store? I mean… what the hell?? Can someone please call Abe Foxman right away? This sort of outrage is probably right…
The Value of Context: Jewlicious’ Newest NYT Shoutout
I may live in Los Angeles now, but I still have people in New York who keep me clued in on important articles or conversations – one of them (ok, it was my…
Scott Tobin @ Presentense Jerusalem
We’ve held a number of successful events at the Presentense space in Jerusalem – most recently a free Photoshop for Beginners class as well as the very fun Barack, Arack and Borekas party…
Interview with Rabbi David Harbater, Director of SIACH
ck: We’ve been running some banner ads for this SIACH program that you founded and currently run in Jerusalem. I checked it out and found it actually kind of interesting. According to your…
Open letter to Rutgers’ President McCormick
Dear President McCormick: The cancellation of the study abroad program with Israel resembles a cultural boycott, similar to the academic boycott of Israel that you rightly opposed in July 2007. You wrote in…
Rutgers joins boycott of Israel
In other words they canceled their study abroad program. There are so many students at Rutgers that are Jewish, and over a hundred were there on other trips this winter. RUTGERS —Nine students…
Stand with Israel re-cap
Last night was NYC’s “Stand with Israel“, a benefit for victims of terror and a solidarity event for Israel. The event was a follow up to the Mumbai Charity event a few weeks…
Obama Loves Cool Jew
Today’s winner of the Inaugural Week of Giveaways of Cool Jew is S. Decter. Mazal tov all around! For a chance to win an autographed copy before the week is out, hurry up…
Greenkeit: Our Jewish Environmentalism
Jewlicious Festival is the largest Jewish student and young adult weekend in the country. Now in it’s fifth year, Jewlicious Festival aims to be more than just environmentally aware, but actually takes steps…
How Barack Obama almost spoke at Jewlicious
Two years ago, in January 2007, as we prepared our list of speakers for Jewlicious Festival, Barack Obama emerged as a top choice on our list of candidates. Eli Winkelman, an active member…
Obama’s First Full Day in Office
And Cool Jew was there. Today’s winner of the inaugural week celebration of multiculturalism in America is Samantha Painter. Samantha receives a free autographed copy of Cool Jew. Mazal tov, Sheebster! To enter…
Change Comes to Washington, But Perhaps Not to The Rabbinate
Three Steins Help Launch The New Administration: LookStein, SaperStein, and an EpStein: One of my favorite Manhattan shuls is Kehilath Jeshurun, and one of my favorite rabbis and teachers is its leader, Rabbi…
Tolerant Nation
Today marks the official launch of Tolerant Nation. This new blog, which will feature posts from a wide variety of guest bloggers in this inaugural year, celebrates multiculturalism and cross-cultural dialogue. It was…
Change Out Now
Finally, “Change” is here! The breakdown: “Change” single out today (buy on iTunes right now for .99cents – ) * Change Wall on your facebook (click here) * Change Ringtone (click here) *…
Southern Israelis Respond to Hamas Rockets with… Humanitarian Aid
Who Couldn’t Have Seen This Coming Part II? Those tricky Israelis. Those dastardly Jews. Throughout Operation Cast Lead, Israeli propagandists and apologists kept insisting that theirs was a war against Hamas Terror and…
Who Couldn’t Have Seen This Coming…
This timing should surprise, uh, no one. Call it Israel’s gift to Obama! From CNN: Israel plans to have its troops out of Gaza as soon as possible after the weekend cease-fire that…
On Duisburg
As you may have read on other blogs, there has been some outrage over measures taken by police officers during an anti-war protest rallye in Duisburg last Sunday. Police officers broke into a…
Sundance 2009 opens with a Jewish Film
What do get a film festival on its 25th anniversary? Paper? China? Silver? Mostly, I think, you skip the gift, be eco-friendly, dress warmly, and just show up to the best of the…
Escaping the Gaza News via the Cinema
With the news continuing from Gaza and Israel each day, I decided to escape through cinema, and see some films in NYC over the past few weeks. Looking through the offerings, what could…
