The Smuggled KFC Story That Went Viral
How did a story of a person that delivers KFC fried chickens in Gaza – via border tunnels with the permission of Hamas – go viral worldwide last week? It was a small…
ShivaWatch: From Rags to Niches
The world lost a beverage innovator, a rags to niches (iced tea) story of an overnight success that took two decades to blossom. Leonard Marsh, a founder of Snapple (Snappy Apple juice), passed…
ESC Eurovision 2013: As Goes Israel, So Goes Europe
Israel’s entry to the 2013 ESC Eurovision Song Contest did not make it through to the finals, even though in my opinion, it should have placed in the top three. But the three…
Babs Nabs Fab Slab at Confab
Director, producer, actress, musician, and philanthropic leader, Barbra Streisand will receive an honorary Ph.D. when she visits Israel in June to sing at the conference honoring the 90th birthday of Israeli President Shimon…
Jason Collins: Black, Gay; and Jewish Piggybacking
Earlier this week, in a well-orchestrated series of events, NBA basketball athlete Jason Collins came out as a gay man and became the first active athlete on a major American sports team to…
Jewlicious Book of the Week: Marc Maron Attempts Normal
Marc Maron is a top American observational stand-up comedian and podcaster who is familiar with Israel (his earlier book was on the “Jerusalem Syndrome,” in which pilgrims get all messianic after visiting the…
Jewlicious News TimBits – April 23
Some people think that little news happens during the Counting of the Omer. They are mistaken. Take a look at the tidbits of news from around the web. New York Magazine reports on…
Anne Frank: Jewlicious Reader and Belieber?
Don’t Be Haters and H8ers. How many pop stars visit the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam? Not Many. Justin Bieber visited the home where Anne Frank and her family hid during the Nazi…
Jewlicious Annual Passover Recipe RoundUp
Here we are again. Midweek and mid-month, it is time for a roundup of Passover and Passover seder recipes that newspapers love to publish prior to the start of the festival. This year,…
Jewlicious Book of The Week: Amy Learns To Game the JDate System and Find Her Man
Amy Webb had a dream job. Writing for Newsweek, she was based in Tokyo and was able to fly all over Asia to report on events and trends. In the back of her…
Pope Francis I: Good for the Jewlicious Readers?
Amidst heavy rains in Vatican City came these Latin words: “Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum. Habemus Papam” (“I announce to you a great joy. We have a pope” It’s official. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio…
Locust Kabobs A La Ramat HaNegev
Without passports or visas, nor even Birthright Israel applications, millions of locust have crossed from the Sinai into Israel this week. The swarms can eat and destroy over half a field of vegetation…
Jewlicious Book of the Week: Herring Today. Not Gone Tomorrow
Before we talk about the book, let’s talk about me – just as if we are schmoozing in a long line at an appetizing store’s counter on the Lower East Side. I am…
Did Bris Joke Get Penn Admissions Rep Fired?
The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper of The University of Pennsylvania and the Chronicle of Higher Education have reported that a regional admissions counselor was removed from her position for mocking applicant essays…
Pope Gives Final Blessings for Purim
Vatican City, Feb 24 – Pope Benedict XVI (Yud, Vov) offered his last Angelus prayer as the leader of the Roman Catholic church on Purim, telling the approximately 200,000 of the faithful gathered…
Try The Goat Cheese Hamantaschen?
I might joke about Marduk and Ishtar, but when it comes to hamantashchen: I am a purist. Mine must have poppy seeds to activate their symbolic Spring fertility. Below are some that non-purists…
Was Daniel’s Bar Mitzvah Video A Shanda?
This week, both Heeb Magazine and Tablet magazine referred readers to a “Save The Date” video posted by a 12 year old resident of Atlanta, Georgia named Daniel. Daniel raps that his friends…
Michael Moore Redeems a Captive, Saves Oscars
Flint Michigan’s favorite son, filmmaker Michael Moore, redeemed a captive at LAX this morning, when Palestinian filmmaker and Oscar nominee, Emad Burnat was held by immigration officials and allegedly threatened with being sent…
Is There Too Much Chai in L’Chaims?
Have you noticed how many Orthodox Jewish groups that are catering to Jewish youth are plying them with alcohol? Truth be told, I drink less than a litre of spirits per decade, but…
Not Feeling The Love In Israel?
Six years ago, Gallup surveyed individuals in nearly twelve dozen countries (one country for every rose I received today) and asked them, “Did you experience love for a lot of the day yesterday.”…
Are Israeli Textbooks Any Better Than Palestinian Ones?
Today, a report of a comprehensive comparison between Palestinian and Israeli textbooks was released in Jerusalem. For decades, the common wisdom among politicians has been that Palestinian schoolbooks reinforce hatred towards Jews and…
Superbowl’s Sloppy Jewish Kiss
GoDaddy.com is known for its edgy – or offensive – Superbowl television commercials. On February 3, 2013, its primary ad will feature Israeli supermodel, Bar Refaeli, representing beauty, in a very sloppy, intrusive,…
SuperFilmBowl – A Weekend of Films
Sure. I will make it home in time for the Super Bowl’s ads and the Puppy Bowl, but my primary focus will be on three films that open in NYC today. THE GATEKEEPERS,…
My Trip to Bountiful
Indulge me. My narcisstic blog of my average Sunday in NYC. Sunday began with a trip to a morning minyan, where I learned that a nonagenarian member of the minyan had passed away….
Numbered, Nagila: Two Highlights of the NYJFF
The sixteen-day 22nd annual New York Jewish Film Festival, presented by The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, ended last week. Two of the standout documentaries they screened were Hava…
Chuck Hagel’s Suez Gift
Former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel is working Capitol Hill in advance of his attempt to be confirmed as the new U.S. Secretary of Defense. Like an expectant father passing out cigars, Hagel did…
