Time is Money
Imagine you are driving on the freeway and see hundreds of dollars passing by every moment. You can’t grab the cash as you drive, but you see it get completely wasted, $100 at…
Haredim: No more walking in public with your wife!
The self proclaimed Beit Din of the Orthodox Community of Israel has released a statement warning righteous God fearing Jews against uhm… walking in public with their wives. What was once thought to…
5 Levels of Pleasure? I’ll Take One Of Each, Please. With Pleasure.
We all want to feel pleasure, and we want it now…don’t we deserve it? It’s human nature to feel that way. According to Judaism, there are five levels of pleasure, and at each…
Santa Claus is a Roly Poly Jewish Lawyer
Now that Hanukkah’s over, I guess the next wave of Jewish videos will be those that directly correlate the Jews and Christmas. There’s a long tradition of this sort of thing, from the…
The State of The Jews: Interfaith Relationship Hanukkah Gifts
This video is described quite simply as follows: “A shiksa tries to celebrate Hanukkah with her Jewish boyfriend and things go awry.” To say the least. This is funny but if you’re looking…
New Gal in Town
For such a small place, there is quite a large Jewish and Israeli community. Before I arrived, I started contacting people through various Facebook pages, and was pleasantly surprised to get such warm…
Jewish Erotica? Jewrotica! Why?
I first met Ayo Oppenheimer, the founder and creator of Jewrotica.org at the first TribeFest in Las Vegas. We’d been in touch via email earlier about some of the projects she was involved…
Your Daughter is Too Jewish
This is what the parents of my friends told my father when we were living in the highly Jewish-populated city of Scottsdale, AZ. People seem to take for granted the large and prosperous…
SlutWalk: 6 ways to dress like a slut in Jerusalem
The SlutWalk has hit Israel! Tel Aviv hosted one last Thursday as did Haifa on Friday. The SlutWalk, or Mitz’ad HaSharmutot as it is known here in Israel, first took place in Toronto…
The Curse of Violent Extremism: From the 10th of Tevet to Beit Shemesh
Rabbi Shaul Robinson, Rabbi at Lincoln Square Synagogue in Manhattan, has unleashed a powerful essay that is receiving a ton of attention. While some of the points he advocates might not please everyone,…
Sex Toys: Kosher, Halal and Jesus Approved
There are now a number of web sites offering sex toys and catering to specific religious communities. These sites, aimed at Orthodox Jews, Christians and Muslims, offer God-approved marital aids in a way…
Occupy Genesis: Rewinding the Torah, Repairing the World
(Cross-posted on Huffpost.com) The story of creation begins again this week in synagogues around the world. The Jewish people make a global reset and roll-back our Torah scrolls. Fresh and new, our world…
Dispatch from Kiev: The Muslim Jewish Conference 2011
Anyone following me on twitter or facebook might have noticed that I’m in Kiev, Ukraine. My Internet access has been spotty which is why I’m only blogging now. I have been in Kiev…
If You’re Going To San Francisco… Arrive Circumcised
Apparently you can leave your heart in San Francisco, but your foreskin is going home with you. — Lewis Black Will voters in SF have a choice on the ballot put forth by…
Chinese Discover Key to Jewish Money Smarts: The Talmud
The Chinese are so obsessed with notions of innate Jewish business acumen that last year’s Google Zeitgeist China rankings listed “why are Jews excellent?†in fourth place in the “why†questions category, just…
Israel, you had me at menorah.
Guest Post by Liza Schwartz Allow me to explain. After two years working at a publishing company in New York editing mostly romance novels, I joined Masa Israel’s Career Israel internship program looking…
Self This
I am tutoring 11 year old twins in all things Jewish & working with them to prepare for their bar mitzvah. They’ve asked me all those tough questions that you’re never told how…
Netanyahu’s Surprisingly Brilliant Speech at the Herzliya Conference
We are surprised! Last Wednesday night, delivering the keynote address at the Herzliya Conference, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, gave a surprisingly brilliant speech. He spoke of security, saying that Israel “must continue and strengthen its…
Defaming Religions: Where do I pick up my Pulitzer?
So there’s been some discussion regarding Pat Oliphant’s most recent cartoon depicting Jews and Israelis as blood thirsty Nazis intent on driving Palestinians over a cliff. While I feel that Oliphant’s cartoon is…
Interview with Rabbi David Harbater, Director of SIACH
ck: We’ve been running some banner ads for this SIACH program that you founded and currently run in Jerusalem. I checked it out and found it actually kind of interesting. According to your…
Eat My Hamantaschen
Goddess Perlman of Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad outdoes the boys in this awesome Purim themed video. Employing a combination of carefully styled Lego people and lyrics punched up with uh… cunning linguistics,…
GreenKeit hits the Vatican?
At the recent Jewlicious Festival, one of our innovations was the institution of GreenKeit – a manifesto of sorts that merges environmental consciousness and traditional Jewish values. As such, we sought to reduce…
Jewlicious Festival 4.0 – Postscript
Looking back on this past weekend, I can’t help but be a little awed. I know that sounds a bit dramatic, especially since we are talking about what can be viewed as a…
Yehuda Kurtzer Wins Bronfman Brandeis Competition
Brandeis University selected Harvard PhD student Yehuda Kurtzer as the winner of its competition for the Bronfman Visiting Chair in Jewish Communal Innovation. Brandeis and the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies were looking…
