In the United States, in the past week, there was a call to BOYCOTT GOYA after the head of the family-run, privately held food company praised U.S. President Donald J. Trump after a White House...
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JewliciousReads: In The Shul Where It Happened and Other June Beach Reads 2020
A selection of Summer reads for the Northern Hemisphere (and Winter Reads for the Southern) BIG SUMMER A Novel by JENNIFER WEINER Pub Date: MAY 5, 2020 Publisher: Atria Books Some reviewers said this...
Juneteenth: It isn’t Passover or Heschel Day
Some of my friends are a funny lot. If you mention Juneteenth and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, they mention how Rabbi Dr. Abraham Joshua Heschel marched with King, or how so many civil...
Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, Mrs. Butterworth… Should Mrs. Adler Be Watching Her Back?
It only took over a century, but PepsiCo/Quaker, the Aunt Jemima brand’s current owner, has decided to retire this commercial brand image, citing its history in stereotypical racist Antebellum...
JewliciousEats: Annual Passover Recipe Roundup 2020 (KISS: Keep It Simple, Seder)
This year, on planet Earth, with so many households in quarantine, it will be difficult or risky to obtain the ingredients necessary to prepare some of the items listed below in this year’s...
Your Kippah Face Mask: What Started as a Dutch Purim Joke is Now a Reality
On Friday, April 3, 2020, the CDC-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States recommended that everyone wear non-medical grade face masks to fight the coronavirus Covid19 pandemic...
Elijah is Quarantined. Not Coming to My Zoom Seder. But Here are Some New Haggadot Nevertheless
Was it Shalom Hanoch who sang that his friend Moshiach isn’t coming. He isn’t even Going to Telefon? I fear that Eliyahu Ha Navi is not coming either. He is quarantined like the rest of...
Joe Exotic’s (Tiger King’s) Jewish Brother and 10 Shows to Binge During Quarantine
When I binged “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” a new 2020 docu-series (or more reality series) on NETFLIX, I hated all the characters and would not have been upset had the lions...