Are Circuses Kosher?
Elephants, tigers, bears and other animals are used for entertainment in circuses. Extravagant animal acts at the circus seem like an age-old tradition that has been part of the fabric of society for…
Jewlicious Summer Reads 2: Once a Mossadnik, always a…
A best selling Summer Jewish read is PORTRAIT OF A SPY, a suspense novel by Daniel Silva (July 2011, Harper) featuring Gabriel Allon, an artist and a retired Mossad operative and assassin. The…
This Week in “Stupid” Jewish Pop Culture
Ordinarily, I might have dedicated a post to each of these stories but it’s all so damned stupid that I just can’t do it one by one. The first item is “Black and…
Amy Winehouse Tribute (Diwon mini-mix)
We were all really sad to hear that Amy Winehouse, the English singer-songwriter known for her powerful contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres including R&B, soul and jazz passed away…
Jewlicious Summer Reads 1: Choosing Kugua over Kugel
What are you reading? One of the latest books I read KOSHER CHINESE: LIVING, TEACHING, AND EATING WITH CHINA’S OTHER BILLION BY MICHAEL LEVY (July 2011) Holt. If David Sedaris became a Jewish…
Tikkun Olam Starts With Good Organizing
According to annual festival presenter Guru Lee Weisman, Mother Theresa told him “repairing the world needs good organizing.” I had no idea about this when I used it as a Tweet to promote…
And the first gay marriage in NYC today is… a Jewish couple
Sunday, July 24, 2011 is the first day that same gender couples may marry in New York State recognized civil marriages. It is the day that the state’s Marriage Equality Act took effect….
What does it take to make it in the music biz?
Hundreds of hours of travelling, pay-less gigs, bouts of depression, luck, and hard work. This is the backdrop for a new documentary about Christopher Stipp writes in Slashfilms: this is a trailer that…
R.I.P. Amy Winehouse
Via the BBC: [. . .] Singer Amy Winehouse, 27, has been found dead at her north London home. A Metropolitan Police spokesman confirmed that a 27-year-old woman had died in Camden and…
It Lives! Jewcy Part IV
Jewcy is now officially the Web site that absolutely refuses to die! When JDub announced that it was going to wind down one of the questions was what was going to happen to…
Are You Jewlicious? Chicago Beach Party: July 31
A few years back we launched Jewlicious.ru, a sort of Russian language version of Jewlicious. Why? Because clearly I had too much free time on my hands, and the devil will find work…
Get Taxi: Another Israeli Innovation
Hey, kids! Did you hear the news? Israel ain’t just a desert anymore! I know, I know, to most of us, it’s not so newsworthy. The book “Start-Up Nation” did a great job…
Rambam or “Moussa ben Maimoun”?
UNSECO, often complicit in, or actually instigating, the revisionist history of the Palestinian Authority has done it AGAIN. Maimonides aka Rambam — of of the foremost Jewish scholars since the days of Hillel and Shammai, is now…a…
Israel, The In Vitro Capital Of The World
According to an article by Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times, Israel is the undisputed champion of in vitro fertilization, and likely all other fertility treatments. The country pays for these procedures…
How Can I get Back To Summer Camp?
Jewish Summer Camp For Young Adults — Tickets from $99. Jewlicious is bringing it back to where the fun really began. However, with one major difference: most of the things that you would…
Jewlicious and Kiruv
I’m going to put this out there because it needs to be said. Over the past couple of years, enough people have hinted or said outright to people from Jewlicious that funding for…
Heeb Redesigns Website; JDub Folds. Coincidence?
Last week Heeb Magazine unveiled their newly redesigned Web site. Shortly thereafter, fellow Natan Grant recipients JDub Records announced that they were winding down for “financial reasons”. Coincidence? I don’t know… What I…
Matisyahu LA & OC Ticket Sweepstakes
Camp Jewlicious invites you to enter to win one of 10 coveted pairs of tickets for the hottest concert of the summer! See Matisyahu live Wednesday, August 3rd at Club Nokia in LA…
Home! Flytilla Fizzles
I spent the bulk of last week in Kiev at the 2nd annual Muslim Jewish Conference. I was initially concerned that the impending launch of the Gaza flotilla and how that would affect…
Dispatch from Kiev: The Muslim Jewish Conference 2011
Anyone following me on twitter or facebook might have noticed that I’m in Kiev, Ukraine. My Internet access has been spotty which is why I’m only blogging now. I have been in Kiev…
