Last week, a friend returned from a trip to Egypt and the pyramids. “Was I interested in a trip there,” she asked. “No,” I responded, “I was already there, thousands of years ago, in Goshen and at...
Author - larry
McCain Chooses Mooseburgers over Pineapples
The call came early this week to our Upper West Side headquarters, where our operatives were screening Jewish films, reading Jewish books, trying to pick some films for Schmoozedance 2009, and trying...
If Chinese Gymnasts Had Bat Mitzvah’s and Other Post Olympic Ideas
As Shabbat begins, and the sun sets on the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, my thoughts include: If Chinese female gymnasts were forced to become Jewish at the sino-shul ( www.SinoGogue.org ), then we would...
Color My Jews Brad
What is it about Hollywood? They think they haven’t cast a good Jewish male since non-tribe members Charlton Heston played Moses (The 10 C’s) and Paul Newman played Ari ben Canaan...
Can Peres Spank an Olympic Butt?
Watching the Olympics Opening Ceremony on Erev Olympics, my thoughts drifted from pondering why 16 year old gymnasts look younger than 14, to wondering why Israel and the USA have such different...
A Mid-Summer Night’s Beach Read
Actually, I find it messy to read at a beach. It is so much easier to read at a pool, a tar or asphalt covered roof, a park, a couch, a bench or an air conditioned subway car. But wherever you end up...
You’re Acquired! Is a Star of David in a Trump’s Future?
The mortgage committees of several NYC tristate area synagogues might be abuzz and salivating, if Ivanka Trump, the daughter of Donald and Ivana (Ivana Marie ZelnÃÄková) Trump, becomes an active...
The Sioux, the Tattoo, and the Jioux
With all this talk of Sarah Silverman and Jimmy (James Christian) Kimmel’s breakup, I recalled my brief attempt to get a tattoo of Sarah or the word ‘wendy’ on my Jewish bod, as...