Abbas’ Demands
During a speech in Baghdad, “Palestinian” President Mahmoud Abbas (a.k.a. Abu Mazen) stated that in order for negotiations to continue between his government and Israel, Israel’s new government would have to “accept the creation…
Is your Rabbi Hot or Not: America’s 50 Top Rabbis Ranked on Newsweek
It’s that time of year again! Lisa Miller of Newsweek explains in Is Your Rabbi Hot Or Not?: Once is lucky. twice is nice. three times—well, anyone can tell you that’s a tradition….
Save Passover Update
Thanks to all of you who have made kind donations to our Save Passover campaign, I spent the morning giving out 27 big boxes of Matza to 7 different households. Each box costs…
I’m singing in Bahrain, just singing in Bahrain!
Bahrain’s ambassador to the United States, Houda Ezra Ebrahim Nonoo is Jewish, several Jewish Bahraini business leaders have been appointed to the Shura Council (an upper house of Bahrain’s Parliament) and King Hamad…
JTA President Elisa Spungen Bildner Responds
I already wrote a post about the JTA’s fund raising letter, sent last Friday, that offended so many Jewish bloggers. Elisa Spungen Bildner, President of the JTA responded, stating that “A fundraising email…
This is what happens when CK leaves too early
… and Kelsey and me behind in NYC without any supervision … As Kelsey was recounting the development of various J-blogs to me, we both came to the realization that, with joined forces,…
Without a strong JTA, the storytelling will be left to bloggers, twitterers, and non-professionals.
Is this the best way for our future Jewish stories to be told and recorded? The preceding was quoted from a mass fund raising email sent out by the President of the JTA,…
The Murray Hill Song: A Piece of Jewish New York History
The Lower East Side of Manhattan will always be remembered as a place of Jewish beginnings in contemporary American Jewish culture. Escaping from Czarist pogroms, harsh anti-Semitism and stifling shtetl life, many Jewish…
The “Moderate” P.A.
Sell your land to a Jew and you can get the death penalty. Well, if you live in an area controlled by the P.A., you can. Palestine Authority Chief Islamic Judge Sheikh Tayseer…
On Duisburg 2
Here’s a little update on the case of two policemen taking down an Israeli flag during an anti-war protest rally in Duisburg by breaking into a flat. The Northrhine-Westphalian ministry of the interior…
Sefira album; Beat Box & Raps 4 Passover
During a time when some Jews refrain from listening to live music – famous Orthodox rapper Y-Love and beatbox superstar Yuri Lane (who has over 6 millions hits on youtube) create all their…
Mame, does this make me look progressive?
To many, Yiddish has got a flavour of shtetl nostalgia to it, but anybody who is friends with native speakers knows that the language is alive and thriving and as colourful as it…
Facebook Haggadah
After a slew of musical Matzah shorts on YouTube, a clever viral haggadah is online and making some serious rounds. The Haggadah promotes Yes We Conserve, a Facebook App which may benefit from…
LA Times Editor Questions Israel’s Right to Exist
. . . At least according to an opinion piece in today’s Jewish Journal by Persian Community leaders, David Peyman and Sam Yebri. He then made a startling observation — that whether Israel…
You Too Can be a Jewish Social Network Consultant!
…in 6 easy steps! Author Liel Leibovitz’s article Communication Breakdown: Dispatches from the Virtual World posits the notion that blogs and twitter are contributing to the “thinning of language” and are “starved forms…
Asher Roth: A Jewish Eminem minus the rage?
Or not? You decide… More info about the latest rapping yid at thedailykush.com. His album “Asleep in the Bread Aisle” is set to hit stores on April 20th. Lots of buzz on this…
Mazal tov!
Congratulations to the winner of Modern Tribe and Cool Jew‘s Hip Hop Seder Box rockin’ Passover Giveaway, Maya Grushansky of Los Angeles. The Hip Hop Seder Box features * Cool Jew * Moses…
Freedom of Speech or Sedition?
I am a ferverent supporter of freedom of speech; it is a right that is almost sacred in my book. After all, it is only in societies where one is allowed to criticize…
Shame on you Guys
You may spend your time arguing with people who call the IDF babykillers…now you have another bunch to contend with: some late graduates of IDF training. From Ha’aretz. Muffti is all for free…
Is there a Nationwide Muslim Student boycott of Israel?
Is there a nationwide boycott effort underway on college campuses? Our experience at CSU Long Beach would seem to say, “yes.” And it may be illegal. On March 18th, Zo Farooqui, an assimilated…
