I struggle with labels, really I do. I’ve long said that everyone these days seems eager to slap a new and inventive label (Hippiedox, Conservadox, Flexidox) on themselves in order to describe...
Author - Esther Kustanowitz
Auschwitz Tattoos: The Next Generation
Alison Stern Golub, a writer living in Israel, relays a story about a friend of hers who found himself in a bar in Beer Sheva, staring down an Auschwitz-style tattoo on a guy too young to have been...
Jewlicious Organization: Dor Chadash
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...
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...