Every other Sunday in Kensington, Maryland, there was a soccer tournament in the park down the street after church. In classic old town America-style, families would come and lay their picnic...
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The Queen’s Gornisht
The Queen’s Gambit and Jewish Exclusion By Cevin Soling, President of Spectacle Films and Xenu Records, and Harvard Academic Picture a movie about a person from Albania enduring a hardscrabble life...
Introducing Nicole Raviv.
Some of our older but still vibrant readers may remember a time when music was purchased on a circular disc or rectangular piece of plastic at a retail store in exchange for a primitive form of paper...
Israel: The Land of Love and Honey
Israel is not just a place I love, it’s the place that taught me love. In 2017, I moved to Israel for a yearlong immersive experience with Masa Israel Teaching Fellows (MITF). Little did I know that...
8 Ways For Singles to Celebrate Hanukkah
Every year at this time, Adam Sandler reminds us: “So much funukkah / To celebrate Hanukkah.” True—who doesn’t like donuts, latkes, candles, and dreidels? But as owner of a successful dating site, I...
Love and Lust in Jerusalem
Before diving into Jerusalem Drawn and Quartered by Sarah Tuttle-Singer (Skyhorse Publishing, due May 8, 2018), I wondered, what more might be said about Jerusalem that hasn’t been presented over...
I Wish More JAPs Were Gay
When I was in 9th grade, I joined B’nai Brith Girls, a pre-sorority for Jewish high school girls. I’m still not sure how this happened, but I fondly remember my baby queer self eating pretzels...
FREE IMPRISONED JEW!
CALL TO ACTION – a tzadik who is a Baal tzedaka, is languishing in jail with an unprecedented sentence of over 150 years! He is the true definition of a Pidyon Shvuyim (a prisoner to a non...