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JewliciousArts: RainbowWashing Jerusalem and Some Other Fall Art Museum Shows
By larry on 9/18/2016
Just in time for the Jewish High Holy Days, New York City’s >Metropolitan Museum of Art wil open a show titled “JERUSALEM: 1000 – 1400...
NewsBits: Mishna In Mississippi Court, Ben-Hur de-Judaized, a Prayer for a Gold Medal, and More
By larry on 8/18/2016
This week marks 25 years since the riots between Hasidic (Lubavitch) Jews and black residents in Crown Heights in Brooklyn – an event that former...
JewliciousReads: 18 Things You Learn From Amy Schumer’s Collection of Essays
By larry on 8/17/2016
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer Publication Date; August 16, 2016 Publisher: Gallery Books / Simon & Schuster We dropped by...
Jewish Summer Campers Try Neutering Hebrew To Make It Gender Neutral
By larry on 8/12/2016
The campers at Habonim Dror’s Camp Morasha in the woods of Northeast Maryland are a creative bunch. Sleeping halfway between Lancaster and Baltimore, they have...
Is WikiLeaks Exploiting the Murder of Jewish DNC Staffer By Offering a $20K Reward?
By larry on 8/10/2016
Wikileaks Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange appears to have suggested in an interview on Dutch TV’s Nieuwsuur that Seth Rich, a staff member of the DNC, was...
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Required Story on Jewish Athletes in Rio #Olympics
By larry on 8/5/2016
The 2016 Olympics have arrived. So many stories on security, unfinished facilities, and Zika fears. Oh, the Greek Gods are so fickle. But let’s focus...
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum asks Pokemon Go to Pokemon Stop
By larry on 7/12/2016
As the world downloads and plays Pokémon Go, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has asked the maker of the online game to Pokémon STOP, and...
NewsBits: Keeping Calm, Observing Dana, Spanking Max, Drinking Sangrias, Satmar Swimming, and More
By larry on 7/6/2016
The UK Guardian starts off the morning with a story on Jewish households in the United Kingdom, titled, One in four married or cohabiting UK...
JewliciousReads: My Summer Reading List
By larry on 7/6/2016
Guess what? I never read all of “Night” or “Dawn.” It is about time I did. NIGHT by Elie Wiesel 2006 paperback Edition Hill and...
Shul Members March on DC Gay Bar and Other Jewish Related Responses to Orlando
By larry on 6/15/2016
It happened less than a week after the terror attack in Tel Aviv. The Orlando attack began at 2 AM, as many Jews participated in...
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Manhattan’s NOJFF: Naturally Occurring Jewish Film Fest
By larry on 3/16/2016
Once every 19 years – or so I heard – a Jewish Film Fest naturally occurs in Manhattan. It is a Naturally Occurring JFF, not...
Gloria Dissed, B&H Persists, ElAl Dismissed, Obama’s Jewish Liaison Coexists, and More Tidbits
By larry on 2/26/2016
My lede should be that a national retailer apologized for featuring a Jewish woman in its catalog. That would not be totally correct though. Heidi...
Will JNF and UJA run Superbowl50 Ads?
By larry on 2/7/2016
Let’s assume 500,000 Jewish households will watch the Superbowl50 from Levi’s Stadium in the San Francisco Bay Area. If a philanthropy ad played for 30...
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What’s Hot at Sundance 2016
By larry on 1/22/2016
The 2016 Sundance Film Festival started Thursday, and already a film has been purchased… by Amazon. One can say that this is representative of the...
2015 Jewish Book Awards: Too White? Too Jewish?
By larry on 1/18/2016
Last Wednesday, just hours from the Oscar nominees announcements in Los Angeles, the Jewish Book Council announced its finalists and winners of the 2015 National...