As Pesach 2021 approaches, trhe media and internet are filled with new recipes and hechshers to help us elevate our holidays. I have heard a lot of buzz about Cobra K, which I am assuming is a KoP...
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Each Day, A New Call For an Apology
Each morning, I awake in anticipation of a new call for an apology Did it start with the uproar of NBC’s Saturday Night Live? The twitter-sphere was filled with calls for NBC to APOLOGIZE for...
Who Said Hamantashen Must Taste Good, and Spuds Have Genders? A Schmear Campaign
Oy, what a week. Purim arrives. A crazy Member of Congress from Georgia attacked her neighboring Congressional colleague over her daughter’s gender identity; savory, tasty oil fried Potato...
JewliciousReads: Who Won The 2020 National Jewish Book Awards? (Hint: Not Me)
THE WINNERS THE FINALISTS AND VIDEOS OF READINGS AND LECTURES On Wednesday morning, the JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL announced its 2020 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS, and the Everett Family Foundation...
JewliciousReels: Disney Pixar’s Soul and Torah
I had the chance to watch SOUL, the Disney+ Pixar animated film during the week that the weekly parshah (Vayechi) – and the Book of Bereshit – closed with Jacob’s death in Egypt...
JewliciousReels: Virtual Sundance 2021 From a Holocaust Fraud to a JFI Panel
I don’t want to be snarky, but, I get irritated when the elite film festivals find items to screen and celebrate that I find off-putting and controversial for the sake of controversy. I...
Momala’s Coat, Bernie’s Swittens, & Other Jewish-related Inauguration Fashions
I awoke on Inauguration Day early to read through the list of over 140 people who were given pardons or commutations. I was struck by the over a baker’s dozen of names of convicted felons or...
Jerry’s ImPeachM(i)nt Babka, Ivanka’s Toilet, Kosher Executioners, Johns Hopkins Grader and More
It was a day before National Pastrami Day, when Congressman Jerry Nadler of Manhattan’s Upper West Side was seen on the House floor carrying a ZABAR’S (recyclable) bag to his desk. He was...