Marty Beckerman’s tongue in cheek piece in Jewcy about ROI120 is indeed hilarious. Despite his trademark scathing tone, I know Marty LOVES the Jews and the Jews love him. Yet, despite the good...
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Jews and Zeitgeist
It seems as if Jews in North America have always had a presence in popular culture larger than would be justified by their numbers. From Irving Berlin penning White Christmas, to the comedic stylings...
A Tale of Two Festivals: Part I – The Wine Festival
×ויר ×”×¨×™× ×¦×œ×•×œ כיין What did you do last Wednesday? What about last Thursday? Well, back here, Jerusalem was host to 2 very different back-to-back festivals. The first was the Wine...
Tznius Girls Are Hot!
…especially when they swing their arms! Semgirl reports a well regarded Rabbi and Posek from a place that begins with “Lake” and ends with “Wood” put out a Tznius...
Bustan Undergoing Changes
Bustan is a non-denominational, multi-cultural, independent NGO that focuses on the intersection between health and environment in Israel’s Negev desert region. Founded in 1999 by Devorah...
The Plight of Agunot Continues Unabated
ROI 2007 Alumna Inbal Freund and her group held a demonstration today as part of the ICAR coalition for agunot and mesoravot get which includes 25 organizations. From Inbal at Mavoi Satum: The...
Shavuah Tov New York!
So whatcha gonna do tonight now that the Sabbath Queen has departed us for another week? Well, Shemspeed is about to launch some kind of bad ass (Jew?) Web site. In order to celebrate this launch...
Good Shabbes Chaim Potter.
Gawker takes a swipe at… Here’s the time line… the Associated Press ran a story last Tuesday about the release of the latest and final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the...