Shabbat in the Uttermost West
From Jerusalem to the “Great Fringe of the Diaspora”, as my hostess calls it, in just 28 hours on harrowing travel. I’m in the always-beautiful City by the Bay, staying the weekend at…
The chosen books of the chosen people
A recent survey found that Jerusalemites are the biggest readers in the country, with the average person reading more books per month than any where else in Israel. “Not by chance is Jerusalem…
Why Not Al?
In a world where wrestlers and action stars become governors, where a comedy show is a trusted name in news, and where super stars are given UN credentials for having lots of money…
1 Million American Jews Sing “I once was lost, but now I’m found…”
Oh… Sorry you missed us! There was a sale at Zabar’s, and our cell phone’s wouldn’t stop ringing… jew know how it is! It has recently come out that there may be more…
Understanding a little of the Temple Mount Controversy
Searching Google News the last while, I have been consistently amazed at what a big story the alleged “Temple Mount dig” has become. It seems that every major (and minor) news outlet is…
Hasids get Hip to Guerilla Advertising
In the East Williamsberg, where the hipsters and the hasids (somewhat) peacefully coexist, Oorah, a children’s charity began targeting the Satmar Jews there, as they are considered generous donors. Their first billboard come…
Bakery owner: Jerusalemite pretzel will take over Japan
A Japanese firm has recently bought a motherload of Abadi Bakery’s bagel-shaped cookies after their recent appearance at an international food fest and smash hit at the subsequent corporate taste testing. The family…
Mid East Piece
With so many crucial differences in politics, religion, culture, history, national narrative, etc., it seems that finding peace in the Middle East is an impossible task. What could possibly bring the masses together?…
Nice Jewish Boys go to Brazil and Binghamton, Make Films, Win Prizes.
Larry Mark just keep cranking them out! This is the fifth in a short series of guest posts on the Jewish aspects of The Sundance Film Festival. Park City, Utah is a town…
A Minister, a Rabbi and an Imam Walk into a Film….
This is the fourth in a short series by Larry Mark. Amid the “normal” Sundance offerings, that include a documentary on horses having intimate sexual relations with men (ZOO), and a biting teen…
Haredi women sick of taking it in the rear
One of the little controversies getting a lot of press in Israel lately is segregated bus lines. No, they don’t make the Ethiopians sit separately. Increasingly, Egged bus lines which serve a number…
BJE’s Second Annual Feast of Jewish Learning
The Bureau of Jewish Education is proud to present: “Telling Secrets, Revealing Mysteries” The Second Annual Young Adult Feast of Jewish Learning. At the JCC of San Francisco: 3200 California St. Sunday, February…
Israeli Oscar Entry and other Jewish oriented films make U.S. Premiere at Sundance
This is the third in a series of guest posts by Larry Mark It was cold, the type of cold that can freeze my now slimmed down post-shloshim moustache and beard. But it…
World Jewry Roundup
Cuban Wedding Ceremony While Yemenite Jews are fleeing their homes after having received explicit threats to leave the area within 10 days, Cuban Jews are experiencing a small revival. Cuba has been rabbi-less…
Should I stay or should I go?
According to a recent poll, 88.5% of Israeli Jews say they would rather be citizens of Israel than any other country. Given how many Israelis seem to dream of moving to New York,…
Sundance: The Inside Jew Scoop – Part 2
The second in a short series of guest posts by Larry Mark. Films and Falafels Make for a fun SchmoozeDance 2007 As tens of thousands traveled to Park City Utah this weekend for…
Sundance: The Inside Jew Scoop
So Larry Mark is out at The Sundance Film Festival freezing his touchas off, and graciously volunteered to give Jewlicious the inside scoop on all the Jewish and Israeli films and happenings out…
The Paradox of Peace
An article by Sarah Honig this weekend shed a disturbing light on the prospect for true peace in the Middle East. In it, she tells the story of her daughter’s American-raised, cosmopolitan, Jordanian…
Jewlicious birthright Winter 2007
He’d love me more, bitch! Even with the one small Springer-like fight that erupted between two Jewlicious women in love with the same dead revolutionary (as pictured to the right), our last Jewlicous-Oranim…
Blacks, Jews and Borat
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America Make for Benefit Glorious Thesis of Cohen. Monday in Israel saw prominent African American evangelical pastor and the head of the Knesset’s Christian Allies Caucus, Glenn Plummer, announcing…
Strawberry Season in the Land of Milk and Honey
Maybe it shoulda been the land of milk, honey and friggin ginormous strawberries. Now available at a shuk near you. This one was practically the size of my hand. Feel free to fly…
Addressing Intermarriage: a free honeymoon to Israel
A recent op-ed in the Jpost proposes a new solution to address the American Jewish community’s elephant in the room: Intermarriage. The first half of the article bemoans those named “Cohen and Friedman…
I was promised a war-torn desert country
Does this look like a desert to you? It’s snowing in Jerusalem, and I, a former native of the American Mid-west, am pissed off. Winter in a wet, cold Jerusalem, where they continue…
You asked for it? You got it!
We know a great phrase when we see it. And so, apparently, does Pissed Off Liberal Jew who commented earlier as follows: “Oh it would be so hot on College Campuses.” Well now…
Calling all Jewish Innovators, Bikkurim wants to incubate you!
If you haven’t noticed the rather large banner on the side of Jewlicious, go ahead and click on it now. It will take you to Bikkurim, a NY based incubator for new Jewish…
