At The Grammy Awards telecast in the USA on SUnday night, the word is that Katy (Hudson) Perry, of “I Kissed a Girl, and I liked It…” fame, will honor Tu b’Shvat, the Jewish...
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Israeli and Palestinian Films Meet at Sundance 2009, Part 1 of 2
The Middle Eastern population more than quadrupled in Park City, Utah, last month during the Sundance Film Festival 2009, as filmmakers and graduates of the Sundance Labs, as well as its Near Eastern...
Israelis Make Manhattan Smell…
On nearly a dozen recorded days since 2005, Manhattan and its Upper West Side has smelled like maple syrup or French toast. It has been a mystery. Was it bio terrorism? Was it a refinery in New...
“All Things Considered” Considered Brooklyn Tonight
National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” broadcast a story today (2/2/09) on two men in their 20’s who grew up in Williamsburg’s Hasidic communities and left...
Oh, that wild and crazy Pope…
Il Papa Can You Hear Me? Last week, Pope Benedict XVI (not to be confused with SuperBowl XLIII) rehabilitated Bishop Richard Williamson, an unrepentant Holocaust denier. Williamson has said that...
Is It Time To Bypass Citgo Stations?
The news from Caracas today was sad. Armed thugs broke into one of the oldest synagogues in Venezuela’s capital, overpowered guards, desecrated and vandalized the property and Torahs, and...