Something Happened in France and it’s Bad
Ceci n’est pas un prophète Last Week, Charlie Hebdo, a French satirical magazine, released an issue “edited” by a fake depiction of some religion’s founding Prophet. The cover depicted said Prophet stating “1000…
I Want to Hold Your Challah
Paul McCartney wants to join the Tribe. This at least according to sources at the National Enquirer. McCartney, who recently married Jewish American Nancy Shevell, told his wife that he wants to convert….
Open Letter to Gilad: What you missed these last 5 years
Gilad, Let me first say that there are no words to describe the feelings that your release has triggered. A weird mixture of relief, happiness, and hope swept over me when I first…
Why Can’t Jewish Foundations be THIS Cool?
Clinton Foundation: Celebrity Division from President Bill Clinton Jewish Foundations can learn a thing or two from this video. The Clinton Foundation’s celebrity brain trust is already SO Jewy, it wouldn’t be such…
Scarlett Johansson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt get all Kissy-Face in NYC
Since leaving now ex-hubby Ryan Reynolds last December, Scarlett Johansson has been linked to a number of new suitors including Sean Penn (gross!), Kieran Culkin and Bradley Cooper. But now US Magazine brings…
ANDY MILONAKIS & Y-LOVE!?!? (THE TAKEOVER!)
“The Takeover,” is the lead single from the forthcoming Y-Love LP. The song explodes with African rhythms and clever wordplay, featuring Jamaican dancehall artist Tj Di Hitmaker, and super star comedian/actor, Andy Milonakis…
Happy Bar Mitzvah Google; Shana Tova Facebook
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg took time off from his busy schedule to wish Google a happy Bar Mitzvah. Google was founded 13 years ago by MOTs Sergei Brin and Larry Page. I…
Jewish Girls Gone Wild
It’s been a pretty wild week in world of Jewish womankind. To say the least. And that’s not a good thing. This week’s events were preceded by the news, shortly before what would…
Spielberg, Can You Hear Me?
Dear Mr. Spielberg, It’s time to take back the Jewish film. With the announcement that Mel Gibson aims to helm a Judah Maccabee picture and the immediate hell-no-we-won’t-go-response of the Anti Defamation League…
Mel Gibson: My Jew Movie
Looks like Mel Gibson is going to be teaming up with screenwriter Joe Eszterhas (Basic Instinct, Showgirls, Betrayed, Music Box) to produce a movie about Judah Maccabee. I know. Weird, right? And on…
Galliano Guilty Verdict for Racist Rants
Former chief fashion designer at Christian Dior, John Galliano, was found guilty of making “public insults” based on origin, religion, race or authenticity after an incident where he spouted racist and anti-Semitic insults…
Dip Your Apple
Ein Prat Fountainheads wish you a Shanah Tovah! Dip Your Apple is the name of the latest video by the Ein Prat Fountainheads, a music group made up of Alumni from the Ein…
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…
The Rent is Too Damn High
In all the hullabaloo about the J14 Tent protesters in Israel, we seem to have neglected the plight of the guy that may have started it all, Jimmy McMillan, the founder of New…
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…
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…
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…
Heeb Redesigns Website; JDub Folds. Coincidence?
Last week Heeb Magazine unveiled their newly redesigned Web site. Shortly thereafter, fellow Natan Grant recipients JDub Records announced that they were winding down for “financial reasons”. Coincidence? I don’t know… What I…
Matisyahu LA & OC Ticket Sweepstakes
Camp Jewlicious invites you to enter to win one of 10 coveted pairs of tickets for the hottest concert of the summer! See Matisyahu live Wednesday, August 3rd at Club Nokia in LA…
Mama Diaspora vs Yuriy Gurzhy – Free mp3 Promo
MAMA DIASPORA vs YURIY GURZHY-7 SONGS-2011 mp3 promo by MAMA DIASPORA
Jews Live at Auschwitz
Get the pun? Here are two Jewlicious snippets from the 2011 Life Festival in Auschwitz, Poland:
Natalie Portman has a Boy! Will there be a Bris?
Natalie Portman, the Jerusalem-born Oscar winner, gave birth to a bouncing baby boy on June 14. The boy’s name hasn’t been announced and the suspicion is that, in keeping with Jewish tradition, she…
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…
Jewnfest LIVE right now!
I am watching The Wellsprings and Yael Mayer is about to go on. The show is taking place at the Mint in LA, I am watching from Jerusalem and the MC, Rabbi Yonah,…
The Week of Jewish “WTF!!?”
The Smurfs, Foreskin Man, Russel Crowe and Leonard Nimoy conspire to make me exclaim “WTF!!?” First French Sociologist and lecturer at the famous Sciences Po in Paris, Antoine Buéno deconstructs the Smurfs (les…
Ernest Hemingway, Hard Drinking, Manliness, Marty Beckerman and the Jews
Whining is for women; whiskey is for men. The only shoulder a man cries on is marinated beef chuck, and the only tears he cries are tears of joy. “You don’t want to…
