Today in Jews, August 23, 2011
Today in Jews, August 23, 2011 (Los Angeles) With Jews under attack in Israel and strange news from J Celebs in the press, revolution in Libya, earthquake near DC, it’s just been a…
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Update: Here’s a link to Heeb as we care any way but subtly.
A Rebirth of Jewish Life in Downtown Detroit
Kick for Detroit today in Los Angeles will raise money for the Jewish community from former Detroiters – but is there a future? Matisyahu stood out in front of the crowd. He had…
The Crown Heights Pogrom
As the press and the community asses the history of those days with 20 years of distance, more and more evidence shows that the “riots” was actually a “pogrom”. The Jewish Forward in…
Tamargo’s Big Gay Israeli Wedding
I’m sitting here in Simi Valley, California, working on Camp Jewlicious and the lush setting brings me back… Last week I was in Abu Ghosh where I was blessed to attend the wedding…
Camp Jewlicious – A Camp Festival of Jewlicious Proportions
Tomorrow, I will be attending summer camp. However, Camp Jewlcious is not your typical summer camp in LA. For starters, the average age of the campers is 25. There are no counsellors, visitor’s…
Chicago Russian Jews Party with Jewlicious
While most of our Hillels and programs on a summer break, Russian Hillel is active as usual. On Sunday July 31 more than 130 students and young adults from Russian Hillel gathered at…
Is Wayne Firestone the Jewish Steve Jobs? II
Last week, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life held its second annual Hillel Institute, a conference for Hillel professionals throughout North America and beyond (it also held an Engagement Institute on the…
Disclaimer
I never thought that it would come to this. However, due to a puzzled phone call from a Jewish professional, an upset online publisher, a withdrawal of support from an organization that doesn’t…
The Day The Music Didn’t Die
In the course of one week in Greater LA, Matisyahu will play three shows, Yemen Blues at least two shows, and Idan Raichel three shows. Turns out that three of the biggest Jewish…
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…
LoveFest in LA, Aug. 11th Celebration of Tu B’Av
LoveFest is produced in honor of an ancient day of joy and matchmaking on the Jewish calender, Tu B’Av, when eligible maidens and bachelors would meet out in the fields on a full…
Are Circuses Kosher?
Elephants, tigers, bears and other animals are used for entertainment in circuses. Extravagant animal acts at the circus seem like an age-old tradition that has been part of the fabric of society for…
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…
This Week in “Stupid” Jewish Pop Culture
Ordinarily, I might have dedicated a post to each of these stories but it’s all so damned stupid that I just can’t do it one by one. The first item is “Black and…
Amy Winehouse Tribute (Diwon mini-mix)
We were all really sad to hear that Amy Winehouse, the English singer-songwriter known for her powerful contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres including R&B, soul and jazz passed away…
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….
What does it take to make it in the music biz?
Hundreds of hours of travelling, pay-less gigs, bouts of depression, luck, and hard work. This is the backdrop for a new documentary about Christopher Stipp writes in Slashfilms: this is a trailer that…
R.I.P. Amy Winehouse
Via the BBC: [. . .] Singer Amy Winehouse, 27, has been found dead at her north London home. A Metropolitan Police spokesman confirmed that a 27-year-old woman had died in Camden and…
It Lives! Jewcy Part IV
Jewcy is now officially the Web site that absolutely refuses to die! When JDub announced that it was going to wind down one of the questions was what was going to happen to…
