Wandering Earth, China’s Lunar New Year 2019 Box Office sci-fi hit, with over $600 million in ticket sales in the past two weeks, contains a tiny “easter egg” near the end of the...
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JNF Screws Japanese Donors, Fox Rejects Anti-Nazi Ad, Temple Donations Drop, and Other Valentine’s Gal...
First … Happy Saint Valentine’s Day, the non-Jewish world’s Tu B’Av. Second, Check out these cute Jewish cards from KESHET Third, Mazal Tov (Muscle Tough) to celebrity Andy...
Frigid Toronto Funeral Grows from 2 to 200, Ehud Barak’s Pot, Disney’s Gay Kugel Eater, and Other Newsbits
It was colder than -27 Celsius (-6F) in Toronto last week, when Eddie Ford was laid to rest in a Jewish cemetery. When Eddie was six, he was hidden by a Christian family in Budapest and saved from...
My problem with Jewish “Chinese Auctions”
Every few months, for years, I receive a promotional mailing from an Orthodox Jewish group hosting a “Chinese Auction.” And for years, I have responded to some of them that the term...
Double Chai Sundance 2019: What’s Jew-ish at the Fest
The 36th Annual Sundance 2019 started in Park City, Utah, today with founder Robert Redford standing before attendees and… walking off the stage. After over three decades of kicking off the...
Can AeroMexico’s DNA Discount Work for EL AL?
There is a viral video online this week from a early 2018 Aeromexico advertisement campaign that tells the story of the air carrier’s discount program for people of Mexican heritage. (See...