Score one goal for the pamphlet of Jewish sport heroes, and inscribe a new name on the list of Jewish hotties: soccer icon David Beckham is a member of the tribe. Turns out, his mom’s Jewish...
Author - Esther Kustanowitz
The Peace Process is a Circus
Literally. One of the latest attempts to show how Israelis and Arabs can get along is the Galilee Circus, a troupe of children between the ages of eight and fifteen and hailing from Jewish and Arab...
They Blinded Me With Science
From the title of this post, I bet none of you would ever guess that the “they” in question refers to “Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America.” A few...
Let’s End This, Now…
All this arguing about whose Judaism is more authentic is giving me shpilkes. And not the good kind. In all the movements– Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and everywhere in between–there...
Prince Charming: Found
And he was in New York, all the time. Can you imagine that? A single Jewish man in New York? Manhattan, even…and we never met… Ari Goldman, 34, who lives in Manhattan, where he runs a...
That? Oh, That’s My New Hitler
“Honey, where should I put the flowers?” “In that yellow vase in the corner…you know, over by the Hitler.” Yet another reason to blame Canada–now an auction house...
Plea For Help: Liver Donor Desperately Needed
This is not a joke. This is not a hoax. This is a real person, a 31-year-old woman from Long Island, who is engaged to be married in October, and who led a 345-city tour to raise awareness of the...
TomKat, Brangelina, Joe’s Shloshim Beard
I know, I’m part of the media. But the media is relentless in its attention to minutiae. First, we had the insanity of that whole Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes circus; then the Brad/Jen breakup and...