A New Location for the Russian Library for Jerusalem
If you doubt that Russian Jews have taken over Israel, what further proof do you need than the recent opening of a new location for the Russian Library in Jerusalem? (Where the location…
Jewish Vodka in Russia
You know you are The Big Jew in The Family when your parents go on vacation and meet their friends from Russia in Spain, and they bring you back the following as a…
Ivri Lider in Washington, DC
Thanks to the kind generosity of 16th Street JCC in DC, I scored two tickets to go see Ivri Lider at 9:30 Club. I am not going to link to the Wikipedia on…
Shavu-what?
Neither my husband ( henceforth Mr. B) or I are particularly religious. Because of the Great Soviet Educational Anti-Semitic and Atheist Experiment, we both know close to nothing about Judaism and sheitls, shiduchim,…
Rebecca Rubin: Yiddishe American Girl
American Girl, those dolls that real-life Russian Jewish immigrants from the Pale of Settlement (Odessa) could never afford when I was growing up, has added a Russian Jewish doll to its collection, no…
Successful Jewish Tweetup in DC!
If you’re wondering what I’ve been up to while I’ve been not posting stories about life from Ze Mother Country, I’ve been scheming. There are no Jews in DC. Or, at least, none…
How does Israel create its own economic growth? (Also, Gringotts.)
There are two constant fears in the Russian Jewish community. The first is that daughters will sit at the corners of tables and, thus will never get married. The second is that Obama…
Jews of DC (and the metro area), Unite!
If you are A) A Jew B) Live in the DC Metro Area and C) Are curious about what Russian Jews drink at happy hour in a strictly anthropological sense, come to the…
“Arise, Lashon HaKodesh!”
Professor Ilan Stavans is one arrogant, cocky catchphrase-molesting, name-dropping Hebrew Crocodile Dundee. So, pretty much exactly like me. Which is why I enjoyed his recent book, Resurrecting Hebrew. He begins it by quixotically…
Lieberman and the Rainbow High Tour
There is a whole bunch of stuff going on in the Russian Jewish (and Jewish) community at large that I could get flack for writing about. First of all, on the East Coast,…
From Russian Jewry, with love
Just as Avigdor Lieberman has made a splash in the new the Israeli government, even landing a spot on the 2009 Top 100 Influential Individuals, I have ascended to Jewlicious. However, I am…
