Yoga for Ecstatic Living with Marcus Freed
Want to get in shape physically and spiritually – but want to do it simultaneously? If you live around LA, I invite you to this series of two back-to-back Bibliyoga workshops with the…
Shabbat Tent: The Legend Returns
We just were supersized. Our new shabbat tent at Phish Fest! Check it out! In the Lamb on Broadway site next to camping headquarters! Corner of Carpet Crawlers and Gabriel Eno streets. Thank…
What Should a Rabbi Drive II: Test Ride Edition
Vanity Fair car columnist Brett Berk made it to LA, and we followed up on the original story, of my car dilemma. Read the first article, if you haven’t, in order for this…
Kosher elk makes for game night
Our pal over at the LA Times, Jerry Hirsch has a great gastronomic delight to share – I thought it was pretty Jewlicious. Game night in the Hirsch household involves a dinner with…
My wedding speech at Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s wedding
I wish the newly-wed couple mazal and bracha. And while I was not asked to perform the wedding (the venerable Rabbi Haskel Lookstein had that honor) I figured that I would pen a…
Soupy Sales, Z”L, Man of a Thousand Pies
As a child, Soupy was one of my favs. I didn’t even know that he was Jewish, or was raised in West Virginia (like my wife’s family). The man was a genius.The Detroit…
Paranormal Activity
Oren Peli taking american fright by storm with his movie Paranormal Activity. I have not seen it, don’t plan on seeing it, but could not help but wonder at the great irony. The…
Cast your vote for Jewish Unity
We are in the final hours of a contest that I never thought I would be in—let alone be leading. However, thanks to amazing support from around the world, we are a couple…
Remembering The First Mobile Sukkah in Poland – 1997
Last night I spoke at the Happy Minyan about Sukkot, and it just felt right to tell some of the story of the first sukkah tour in Poland we created in 1997. The…
Messianic Podcasts Featured on iTunes… as Jewish
Three of the top ten Jewish podcasts are not-Jewish podcasts that aim to convert Jews to Christianity.
“The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right” – William Safire, dead at age 79
When his column didn’t appear this weekend, we were worried. I will personally miss this master wordsmith, and columnist who I have enjoyed reading for 22 years. A fierce defender of Israel, winner…
What do you use for Kapporos/Kaparot?
Kapparos or Kaparot (Hebrew: כפרות, “atonements”) is an ancient Jewish ritual to save oneself from a harsh Heavenly decree by it being effected on another object. Vegetables, fish, money, and other objects have…
Al Jazeera reports on Netanyahu’s UN Speech
The way the Arab world views Netanyahu’s speech. It is worth seeing how this speech was reinterpreted for the Arab world. They draw comparisons between Gaza and the Holocaust, and describe the UN…
Hate Site of the Weak: Westboro Baptist Church
This sick video is up on YouTube, and maybe it should stay there so that people see how repulsive the Westboro Baptist Church really is. Paul, Ringo and Yoko need to sue WBC…
Triumph and Me
There is an funny story about how I came to be in this skit with Triumph, on the Chabad Telethon, and then on Conan. Enough to say that God has a great sense…
Nationwide Protests; NYC Hotel Bans Ahmadinejad
Jewlicious has signed up to be a participating organzation for the NYC protest organized by the Stand for Freedom in Iran Coalition. Protests are planned in major cities against the Iranian dictators. Perhaps…
Arrest Ahmadinejad
Mayor Bloomberg, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the main supporter of anti-Jewish and anti-American terrorism in the world, must be arrested and tried for his crimes against humanity. You will be hosting Ahmadinejad, one…
On Rosh Hashanah it will be inscribed
From Jonathan Berliner-from his 2009 High Holidays Reader… sources available upon request. בראש השנה יכתבון וביום צום כפור יחתמון… ” On Rosh Hashanah will be inscribed and on Yom Kippur will be sealed…
What Should a Rabbi Drive?
My friend, and high-school buddy Brett Berk writes a car column, Stick Shift, for Vanity Fair online. When I started thinking about how to replace my old car, I figured he is the…
New Year in Israel with Benji Lovitt
Benji Lovitt – who entertained us at Jewlicious Festival 5.0 – in his latest hilarious video for the New Year.
Marc Garlasco, Human Rights Watch’s leading critic of Israel, is a Nazi Fetishist
The lead investigator for Human Rights Watch, the one that accused Israel of intentionally bombing kids on a beach, and using phosphorous as a weapon, and other Gaza war-crimes has been discovered to…
BOTEACH 1 — GADDAFI 0
The Mad Man from Libya has gotten into a skirmish with Rabbi Shmuley. He messed with the wrong rabbi. The Libyan uprooted trees, Shmuley argued, and destroyed other stuff on the border between…
