Feel Like the Ehud Barak for Under $300
Sabre rattling against Iran; Iranian attacks on Israelis in Thailand* (almost), India, and Georgia; meetings between defense leaders and diplomats; and economic sanctions are heightening the possibilities for overt, direct military actions by…
Jew-Lin-cious? Jumping on the Bandwagon
Jeremy Lin knocked Tu’B’shvat off the front pages of world media. In the past fortnight, the Jeremy Lin tale has been on the lips of President Obama and China’s President-in-Waiting. A reporter of…
Is Something Jewish Brewing at Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey, the award-winning British television series that is a hit and obsession in the United States and UK, may have a Jewess hidden in the upstairs rooms. The series is set in…
Israeli Films Win At Sundance
Two Israeli productions won at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Whether Israel won… well that is another story. It is rare enough that a filmmaker has their film accepted by the Sundance Film…
Latka Round-up (forget the Matzos)
Yes, yes.. hahaha. Once again, publications such as Heeb and The Washington Post are highlighting WHOLE FOODS groceries and their displays of matzos and hams for Hanukkah. Jessica Goldstein of The Washington Post…
Long Island’s Crime of the New Century
On the same day that shares of Shanda Interactive Entertainment (Nasdaq:SNDA) spiked up in heavy trading, another shanda was taking place on New York’s Long Island. (Not to be confused with the moronic…
The Pakistani Kosher Bagel and Other Timbits
The Forward’s press-hat wearing Gary Shapiro was the first to publish the news; and he was followed by the NY Daily News and NY Post. America’s oldest bialy/bagel retailer has been purchased by…
Holiday recipes as Sweet as the Traffic Around the U.N.
It is the Wednesday before Rosh HaShanah, and newspapers around the world, from the Manhattan’s Upper East Side to Toronto’s High Park, from the U.N. General Assembly to LA’s Pico-Robertson, are publishing special…
Nutty Roseanne Barr’s Women’s Jewish Retreat: Unshelled and Ready for Tishrei
Roseanne Barr is running for the office of President of the United States (POTUS) in 2012. She is also running to be the next Prime Minister of the State of Israel (PMOTSOI), although…
Martha Stewart in Israel: It’s a Tov Thing
As Rosh haShana approached, Martha Stewart visited Israel and blogged each day about her experiences. Why Israel? Why not. The trip was funded by Israel’s Ministry of Tourism. Ms Stewart scouted locations for…
Jewlicious Reads: Craving Our Jewish Meat
Tired of those Jewish and Kosher cookbooks that focus on Passover dishes, blintzes and desserts? Do you crave the real food: meat and poultry? Do you celebrate the carnivore that you are? Then…
Jewlicious Summer Reads: I <3 The Jewish Heartland
I bought and read this book based on its cover. Who wouldn’t be attracted to a menorah of ripe yellow corn? FROM THE JEWISH HEARTLAND. TWO CENTURIES OF MIDWEST FOODWAYS by Ellen F….
Is Hurricane Irene Jewish?… and Other News
Is Hurricane Irene – an August 2011 storm system which is damaging the Bahamas and affecting the Eastern seaboard of the USA – Jewish? No. But the character in the film, OUR IDIOT…
Jewish Tidbits from Around the Web
It was a good few days for tidbits, including: I missed the launch party for the 2012 Nice Jewish Guys calendar in Southern California. The project was started by Adam Cohen (Food Networks…
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…
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…
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….
Films: The Summer Jewish Block.. busters
As July nears, so do the Summer Jewish blockbusters. They include: The 31 Annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival ( July 21- August 8th ) will honor Kirk Douglas this Summer. This is…
NY Marriage Equality Passes: Jewish Backstories
On Friday evening, as the clock hovered near 10PM, the New York State Senate passed a law allowing for marriage equality and same gender marriage licenses, and NY State Governor Andrew Cuomo signed…
The Color Usurple – Alice Walker Weaves a False Tale
Alice Walker, a Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and author of “The Color Purple,” was reached by Foreign Policy magazine from her hotel in Greece, as she prepares to board a flotilla (or faux-tilla…
Shiva Watch: Ah, Just One More Thing… Peter Falk Succumbs
The actor, Peter Michael Falk, the star if the television detective series, Columbo, passed away today at the age of 83. Falk played an eccentric detective and lieutenant in the Los Angeles Police…
Delta: We love to fly. And it shows… unless you’re…
Jewish? Delta Airlines awoke this week to two new stories. First, their SkyTeam alliance has entered into an agreement with Saudi Arabian Airlines. Second, many bloggers have cried out, writing that Delta will…
Shalom YPSA and Shalom YIISA
With commencement over and the campus empty of many students, activists, student newspaper editorial writers, and faculty, Yale University announced that it is shuttering its Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism,…
Shiva Watch: Israel’s Richest and the World’s Noblest
Early June experienced some significant passings, including: Mietek Pemper: Mieczyslaw (Mietek) Pemper passed away in Augsberg, Germany this month at the age of 91. Pemper was a prisoner in the Plaszow concentration camp,…
Bloomsday in Kikar Bryant and Rehov Eccles Sheva
There are few joyous Jewish holidays between Shavuot and Jerusalem Day in June, and the start of the High Holidays in September, unless you also count The Tony Awards and Bloomsday. Neil Patrick…
Justin’s Israeli Gift is Close to his Heart
Hi there Hebrew speaking Bieber fans. The news is out. While in Israel, the teen-aged Bieber reportedly visited a tattoo parlour with the permission of his mother, and he got a Hebrew letter…
