Fear Not: The Torah Won’t Kill You Unless Someone Beats You With It
In Ha’aretz’s flagrantly biased, recent article regarding the Education Ministry’s decision to introduce a mandatory course of study related to Jewish tradition and culture, Bar-Ilan University Professor Avi Sagi shows that he –…
Seeking Confirmation of my Paranoia?
As I sit on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and watch the U.S. Senate’s Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings in Washington D.C. for Elena Kagan’s nomination to the US Supreme Court, I wonder… am I…
Schalit March: Day 4
Is anyone marching? Would be great to hear first hand reports. And photos. From Jpost A march demanding the release of captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit continued on its fourth day on Wednesday,…
Sasha Perry, Videographer: Recipient of ROI Community Grant
Recently, the ROI Community announced $500,000 in project grants. These grants are meant to foster innovation and help advance projects in early to mid-stage development. We’ve decided to feature a number of these…
The UN Totally has a Hard On for Israel
But these Brits say it in a much classier way We’re allowed to laugh at this right? Right? Just because I’m in hysterics it doesn’t mean I’m a right wing loon, right?
Love is in the air…
Or something Isn’t love supposed to be a spring thing? After a cold winter the sap starts to rise, the air is full of pollen, bulky sweaters are discarded… cue in the porno…
Tourist in my own country: Dan Panorama Tel Aviv
Part 1: Tel Aviv I recently had the opportunity to play a little game of “tourist in my own country” – I spent two days at the Dan Panorama Hotel in Tel Aviv…
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Germany vs England: 4 – 1 The Jewlicious link you ask? When the players were leaving the pitch after the match, Matisyahu’s “One Day” was being played over the speakers at the stadium….
Some Swedish Students Reject the Isolation of Israel
As some people and organizations seek to single out Israel for boycotts or similar actions, it is heartening to see that there are many who reject the scapegoating and singling out of Israel…
4 Years in Captivity
Friday marked the four-year anniversary of the kidnapping/capture of Gilad Schalit by Hamas, the terrorist organization which controls the Gaza Strip. In Israel, according to the Jerusalem Post, the Schalit family, and 10,000…
Tel Aviv Night Shabbat
Well, this has been a rough month for Israel. The worst of the fears that led me to write about the morons who run Israel on the night of the flotilla fiasco, have…
Is Ikea pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian?
From Lisa Goldman on Twitter yesterday, I learned that Ikea was not delivering furniture to Arab towns in the West Bank while continuing its delivery services in the Jewish settlements. However, there is also…
Change the Conversation
It’s time we changed the conversation, like Bret Stephens does in this great clip. (HT: Elie Klein.) While I am proud to be part of such a complex tribe, sometimes our messages are…
All I Do Is Win with DJ Khaled, Y-Love & Skeptik (Free Download)
Y-Love, the internationally acclaimed hiphop artist “making hip-hop kosher” according to XXL Magazine, and Black Skeptik, the poet/emcee, fresh off recording his debut album in America and Ghana, West Africa under his new…
New Jerusalem Talmud Event
Help write the next Daf (Page) The subject of this “Daf” is Assimilation. The ‘mishnah’, created at Jewlicious 6.0: How much of non-Jewish cultures/ values/ places can be taken on before essential Jewish…
Team USA: The Jews Of The World Cup
Without Israel around, refs delegitimize Team USA For the record — and the game is still going on— Team USA has had their second disallowed goal disallowed of the World Cup. Early in…
“When we die as martyrs”
According to an article in Haaretz, the song “When we Die as Martyrs,” recorded by Jordanian production company and TV station “Bird of Paradise,” has already inspired dozens of spin-offs on YouTube. The…
Cultural Boycott? Recent Cancellations by International Musicians Spur Debate in Israeli Public
Guest Post by Alison Avigayil Ramer and Ronnie Gross As a result of several international musicians cancelling their concerts in Israel, due to political pressures, Israeli singer-songwriter Geva Alon held a free concert…
“My Keffiyeh” The Music Video Fundraiser
Shemspeed musical artists DeScribe & Remedy showcase global Jewish diversity through their new video, “My Keffiyeh.” Help support this ground-breaking project and become a part of this historic event! Shemspeed’s Israeli Keffiyeh is…
Israel, you had me at menorah.
Guest Post by Liza Schwartz Allow me to explain. After two years working at a publishing company in New York editing mostly romance novels, I joined Masa Israel’s Career Israel internship program looking…
Deal-Making on Gaza, Jewish Special-Needs Students, and Interviewing J Street’s President
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No Laughing Matter: Unrestricted Naval Trade with Hamas?
So imagine Hamas as poofy Englishmen… And the viral video PR onslaught against the Fauxtilla continues. I have no idea who exactly is behind this video and their Web site provides scant details…
Shi360 and Friends present UNITED – #fauxtilla Response
Thoughts? Shi360, one of Israel’s most popular rappers, a perennial performer at Taglit Birthright Israel Mega-Events, and a member of rapper Subliminal’s Tact family put out this video in response to the international…
Tel Aviv is Coolicious
Despite CK’s opinion that Tel Aviv should be renamed Hell Aviv, some aspects of Israel’s first Hebrew modern city are quite cool and less known than they should be. Here Leadel does a…
