With their instant access to kol-isha-laden ringtones, frivolous purchasing via e-commerce, spam email touting Viagra, illicit and grammatically incorrect text messaging and potentially pornariffic...
Author - Esther Kustanowitz
When Jewish Music Attacks…
First, there was Matisyahu. And now, there’s this song by The Chevra that’s been runnin’ round me noggin’ since Rabbi Yonah sent me the original video clip from Google Video...
Israeli Elections for Dummies
If you’re like me, all this talk of “we’re in Israel, we’re so great” that half of this site’s writers engage in is getting to be a little too much, and when it...
Advertising Genocide?
***(SEE END FOR UPDATE)*** “Come to Sudan, and kill someone different from you…” OK, so that’s not what today’s advertising supplement to the New York Times really said...
“When Do We Eat?”: The Review
Everyone loves a seder. Or two, for those of us outside of Israel. Unless you don’t. I mean, the vibe of the seder itself, once you get into it, is a cool thing–people of different...
Israeli News Quiz
How well do you know Israeli news? Here’s a brief quiz: According to an Israeli Kabbalah sage, the recent cases of avian flu in Israel were caused by: a) Women seductresses trying to gain equal...
Gematria Girls Gone Wild
I hate gematria, the assignment of various number values to Hebrew letters, usually in the service of creating an additional layer of meaning to a biblical text or situation. As far as I’m...
Conservative Movement’s Big Gay Issue, Volume 2
Today’s JTA (and by “today” I mean “last week,” since that’s how long it took to post this post without errors….GRRR….) announced: During a two-day...