Shabbat Hanukkah: Day 4
Oil lamps are the way to go on Hanukkah. They last WAY longer than those skinny little wax candles and the miracle we commemorate was all about the oil, know what I mean?…
A Refugee’s Plight: In Search of Miracles
My friend, onion-picking buddy and former Taglit-birthright israel co-madrich, Shaanan Meyerstein sent me the following and I thought it would be important to share with you all. Looking at Adam’s clothing, you would…
Ham for Hanukkah!
This photo, taken by Nancy Kay Shapiro and then reproduced in Gothamist, at first seems like a silly error, the product of some clueless clerk at Balducci’s. But then I read Bah, Hanukkah…
From Tashkent to Tel Aviv
Taglit-birthright Israel’s first Winter group arrives Taglit-birthright Israel‘s 825th bus load of young Jews recently arrived to Israel just in time to join in all the Hanukkah fun. This group from Tashkent, brought…
A Tale of Two Hanukkahs
Analog Hanukkah: My Menorah in Jerusalem. Yeah… oil is cool! Digital Hanukkah: Source:
Hanukkah 2007: Day 1, Jerusalem
Left: Nice new Menorah at the Kotel. Looks familiar? It used to be part of a synagogue in Gush Katif… Right: Hanukkah is… the festival of lights! Oh wait, that’s candle lighting at…
Miriam and Shoshana rockin’ out חנוכה West Coast Style
There. That’s how you spell it. OK? Clever holiday videos are no longer the unique domain of East Coast Jew hipsters, as ably demonstrated by Los Angelinas Miriam and Shoshana (Deena and Kara…
Top North American Jewish Charities
Forbes Magazine recently ranked the 200 top Charities in the US (as of Dec. 31st, 2006). Twelve Jewish charities made the cut and most were at, or well above average in terms of…
Jewish Living Magazine!
Kind of like Oyprah or Martha Jewart Living* A new Jewish magazine is available at your local magazine rack. Called Jewish Living it sells on newstands for $4.95 or you can shell out…
Geez, I am SUCH a Jew!
I am seriously in need of expanded horizons… Oh and did I mention how clever I thought Designist Dream (Get it?) was? Yeah? Oh. Well whatever.
MyJewishLearning presents Tod and God on Hanukkah!
That was the latest holiday viral video by my pal and obsessive Scrabulous partner Will of Shabot6000 fame. The video is meant to promote the Website MyJewishLearning.com, described as “a trans-denominational website of…
Celebrate Hanukkah: GoEight!
JDub Records and Taglit-birthright israel are celebrating Hanukkah this year in a big way. They are organizing a series of shows in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, Washington DC, Tel…
“Bush is very ugly!”
“Abbas is very ugly! Olmert is very ugly! Hanniyeh is good!” A local shared these words of wisdom with me on a recent trip to Ramallah. I was standing around the bus station…
Jewlicious Thanksgiving
At the recent GA in Nashville, our duly empowered Jewlicious Agents distributed Thanksgiving postcards to all the Super-Jews in attendance. The front was a nice graphic reminding folks of our upcoming Festival (Feb….
King Juan Carlos: My New Best Monarch Friend
Queen Elizabeth used to be my best monarch friend. She was always perfectly coiffed, dignified and elegant. Fastidiousness against adversity was always her hallmark, both as a young woman during the WWII German…
When Palestinians Read Jewlicious …
In the past year, Jewlicious has recorded 1262 visits from what Google calls the Palestinian Territories. What sort of insight might we be able to gain from this informal interaction? Well, it seems…
I Could Never be Here Without… American Apparel
It’s been a while since we posted anything American Apparel related. The phone calls from Los Angeles started taking an angrier and more desperate tone, as if the entire future of the company…
Al Dilbert and JihadCorp
Have I mentioned how much I love Russian expat magazine exile.ru? Well yes… we’ve posted a number of stories that have originated from there. I went to site again the other day and…
Scapegoat! The Perfect Hanukah Gift for the Jew on Your Christmas List!
I have a friend called Steve. When he can’t find a parking spot, he blames the anti-Semites. Date gone bad? Dog pooped in the house? Bad weather? STDs? You got it – it’s…
Zimzun
Israeli society is all about acronyms. Just peruse Zabaj.com for a regular series of humorous posts about Israeli linguistic foibles (and the thankfully rare political commentary – stick to the jokes and drinking…
More Live Blogging from the UJC General Assembly
Monday morning… deepthroat reports: “What the hell is this hotel’s problem? They’re built for conferences, but the business center only has one computer that prints!! That photo is one of the conference center…
Blogging the GA
The UJC General Assembly is the largest annual gathering of Jewish leadership in the world. Wall to wall machers baby! This year it takes place in the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center…
Norman Mailer: 1923-2007
Norman Mailer died today of renal failure. The prolific author, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director died never having written the Great American Novel he always aspired to. Mailer, a two-time Pullitzer Prize…
Oh Adolf…
Is it too soon? Rich Cohen writes in Vanity Fair about his experience walking around with a Hitler moustache in Becoming Adolf. He concludes: I wore the mustache for about a week. It…
A Response to Beery and Horwitz
Ariel Beery and Aharon Horwitz, the dynamic duo behind Presentense and PICZ etc. recently penned an op. ed. piece in Ha’aretz titled Investing in Value. In this article they seek to encourage a…
