Nerdy American Jews. Pushy Israelis. Last week, I went to a Yom Ha’atzmaut party with over 3000 New York area Jews and Israelis of all political and religious stripes. That party, which ran in...
Author - Esther Kustanowitz
Vulcan Method Acting in Tel Aviv
Beam me into acting class in Tel Aviv, Scotty… Method acting goes Vulcan as Shekhina-loving Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy, 74 (can you believe it?), lands his thespian spacecraft in Israel to...
“Hatikvah” Named Official Song of State of Israel
All this time, all those Independence Days past, we’ve been singing a song that was not officially the National Anthem, reports Jeremy Maissel in The Jerusalem Post . Maissel, a resident of...
Consider This My Yom Ha’atzmaut Post
So, apparently, this guy is going to change the way Americans view Israel. People see me as some kind of national hero,” says Eytan Schwartz, 30, who won the reality show “The Ambassador” in March...
Katif’s Got Your Blog
The Jerusalem Post has founded the Gush Katif blog, written by Rabbi Ari Katz: Until this past summer, I was a rebbe in that hesder Yeshiva, and I then I happened to see an ad in the paper for a Rosh...
Huffington Post Invents Celebrity “Bloggers”
Given that all of us here at Jewlicious are rock-star type celebrities of the blogging persuasion. But the Huffington Post, which went live today, features contributions from actual...
Time Is On Their Side…Yes, It Is
Wrap your brain around this one. M.I.T. is known for its academic excellence and really smart people. And time travel conventions. Apparently, the Time Travel Convention was today. But the PR machine...
March of the Gentiles
Since its founding in 1988, the March of the Living has been a “rite of passage” for Jewish teenagers; the trip–arguably, the birthright israel of its day–was viewed as a...