What would your mame say?
Just came across these two articles. Suggestions on what the mame would say will be welcome. A Chicago tavern said on Thursday it will begin selling chicken wings coated in one of the…
Anne Frank, Social Worker?
Liverpool has launched a few exhibitions this month to mark the Holocaust. One of the exhibitions consists of a re-creation of Anne Frank’s Amsterdam bedroom and has been located inside a church by…
How winning a contest doesn’t exactly make you a better catch
AP reports on Yahoo News: A Manhattan librarian emerged as a champion couch potato after three rivals gave in to sleep deprivation or nature’s call. Stan Friedman won the ESPN Zone Ultimate Couch…
I speak Hebrew and English
Browsing the toys section at alljudaica, I came across this cuddly plush version of ck. My other favourites there include the Mitzvah Kinder Mentschen, the Ten Plagues Finger Puppets, the Noah’s Ark’s Children’s…
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any more bizarre…
. . . you learn that the Jews are responsible for the false treatment of cancer patients. THE JEWS have killed two billion people with morphine, chemotherapy and radiation treatment according to the…
JAP? JAP! JAP?
When I first came across the acronym ‘JAP’, I couldn’t quite picture what it denoted. Something video recorder-technology related maybe? A cross-breed between ‘Japanese’ and ‘chap’ to refer to one’s chums from the…
For TheMiddle…
. . . and all others (The maker of this clip does not mean its content to be serious. A gracious curtsey goes to the folks at TheKnish.)
Jewlicious Indoors
Whoever said we may not have fun despite stores being closed and all the snowstorms? Here are a few suggestions on things you can do while stuck and bored at home: Learn Shakespeare…
Status Quo
ck’s busy, Muffti’s busy, TheMiddle’s still around, and the rest is probably getting their party outfits ready for the Heebonism event (the one time I’m not going to NYC during my break *pout*). But…
How to Make a Man Happy
So, your mame’s been telling you that you may not go to Germany for Oktoberfest and binge drinking with your friends from yeshiva as the beer in Germany’s not kosher? Have I got good news…
Oy, mir kimmen a-vassailing…
Or something like it Jüdische Allgemeine featured an interesting article by Hannes Stein on American Christmas songs written by Jews. Old news? Exactly. Or has anybody not heard yet that (I’m dreaming of…
Romeo and Jewliet
Same procedure as every year? This year it was the NYT’s turn to address the issue of celebrating the holidays among interfaith families. There are two aspects of that article that I’d like…
Jews on the News
December 2007′s edition of Spotlight coincidentally featured a few members of the tribe, some well-known for their Jewishness, others whatnot. Noam Chomsky, who, in the spirit of the holidays (Hanukkah [official Jewlicious…
Oyfn veg shteyt a boym – A Yiddish lullaby
Itzik Manger was one of the most important Yiddish poets of the twentieth century CE; he was avidly interested in story-telling traditions of different cultures and discovered ballads as a way of sharing his…
When in Rome, do as the Romans do…
… and eat kosher! MkKosher has announced the launch of its second store on 6 December 2007. The place will be located on Via dei Crociferi 12-13, close to the Trevi Fountain in…
The Following Few Passages, Gentlemen, Might Save Your Relationship or Thoughts on Why Gifts and Chanukah Go Together Well
Though commonly considered to be a typically Christian custom, occasionally frowned upon as ‘goyish’, gift-giving among adults during the winter holiday season was an invention of the more or less secular bourgeois classes…
There’s no such thing as bad publicity…
Reuters reports that Oxford University’s debating club has invited Holocaust denier David Irving and National Party leader Nick Griffin to speak at a free speech forum on Monday. Several MPs also invited to…
Wir haben sie!*
Back in the day, US American imports to Germany included chewing gum, caffeinated sparkling beverages, popcorn, jeans, and democracy. A few decades later Jimi Hendrix did his last gig at the Love-and-Peace-Festival on…
