This morning, I awoke in Manhattan to my own personal Jewish film festival. The screens are filled, this week, with films of Jewish and Israeli interest. How so? Well, we have documentaries on the...
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ShivaWatch: Carl Ballantine, the Dean of Comic Magicians
First Soupy, and now Carl. Carl Ballantine, born Meyer Kessler, was the Dean of Comic Magicians, and influenced both comics and magicians, from Steve Martin to David Copperfield, passed away in Los...
The Rabbi In The Corner
On Saturday evening in Las Vegas, as the slots get played and Havdalah ends the Sabbath, a rabbinical student, weighing in at about 154 pounds, hailing from the Belarus by way of Haifa, will get his...
Rabbi Yonah The Hero Finalist
Jewlicious Festival founder, Rabbi Yonah (2nd from right), with some other Jewish Community Heroes of the Year and the Project Leader at the GA 2009 in Washington DC. The project expected 100,000...
Netanyahu Calls on Abbas to Restart Peace Talks
The Israeli governemnt launched a full court press for blurb control today before meeting with President Obama in Washington DC. Ehud Barak, in DC for the GA2009, said that Israel is doing all it can...
Greetings from the GA2009. Wish You Were Here
The General Assembly 2009 conference kicked off in Washington DC on Sunday with an estimated 3,000 conferees, mostly made up of representatives from 157 North American Jewish federations and 400...