It was recently announced that ESPN will cease its broadcasts to a number of regions including Israel as of the end of July. This means that neither Hot, the national cable company, nor Yes, the...
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Shimon Peres: Our Father Our King
There was something a bit disturbing about watching Barbra Streisand serenade Shimon Peres at his 90th birthday party with a rendition of “Avinu Malkeinu.” Avinu Malkenu, our father our...
Kashrut Certification and Hashgacha Pratit
There’s an old Jewish story that goes something like this. A frantic man goes to a rabbi and says, “Rabbi, I did a terrible thing. I ate non-kosher food in a non-kosher restaurant. What...
Rachel Azaria: An Interview with a Jerusalem City Council Member
Rachel Azaria is thirty five years old and married with four children ranging in ages from 10 years to eight months. She is the leader of the Yerushalmim (literally Jerusalemites) party and its only...
World War Z: A Mustn’t C
You’re probably wondering what World War Z has to do with Jewish Issues. Well it has a long sequence set in Israel. A lot has been written on line recently about the political statements that...