The 2016 Sundance Film Festival started Thursday, and already a film has been purchased… by Amazon. One can say that this is representative of the market for indie films… that Amazon and Netflix and...
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2015 Jewish Book Awards: Too White? Too Jewish?
Last Wednesday, just hours from the Oscar nominees announcements in Los Angeles, the Jewish Book Council announced its finalists and winners of the 2015 National Jewish Book Awards, North America’s...
Oscar Noms Nod Shoah Flicks, Snubs Minyans
Oscar nominations were announced today. And members of The Tribe were on the lists. The 88th Academy Awards ceremony will be broadcast from Los Angeles on February 28, 2016. Most importantly (to...
ShivaWatch: Swados and Kaye – Two Women of Valour
I was so busy last week, that I missed that two heroes passed away. Elizabeth “Liz” Swados (Sway-dose), composer, director, author and one of the most original playwrights passed away at...
What Jewish Charities Can Learn from Harvard Biz School
December is the month in which my mailbox gets a lot of letters appealing for shekels. When I was a teen, I sent some dollars to American Friends of Magen David Adom. For the next few years, the...
Israelis To Open Campus in China – Will Serve Chinese Not Only On Erev Xmas
Some dream of Chinese on Christmas Eve and Ask “Why?” Others dream of an entire Chinese school and ask, “Why not?” Last week, over 5,000 people attended the groundbreaking in...
Fariq Awwal Tso Chicken Comes to Gaza in Time for Xmas Eve
Sorry Oberlin University students and Kung Pao Kosher Comedy customers. General Tso Chicken (or Admiral Tso if you are at Annapolis) has a new cousin. According to a Xinhua Chinese news service story...
Moishe Gets a New Window – An East Village Kosher Bakery Gets a Gift
In Manhattan, one of the few remaining kosher bake shops is Moishe’s in the East Village at 115 Second Avenue. Moishe’s survived poor times and punks, for over four decades, as well as...