Image source: Review.org Like Atlas who carried the weight of the world, or Sisyphus, who struggled with a weight on an incline, Columbia University Senior Emma Sulkowicz is carrying around her navy...
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Jewlicious Reads: A Calculated Shiva
What if a mob of socially inept math geniuses crashed your mom’s shiva? The Mathematician’s Shiva. A novel by Stuart Rojstaczer (September 2, 2014, Penguin, 384 pages mixes Jewish family...
Jewlicious Eats: Bitter To Swallow
A unique cookbook appeared in my kitchenette this week. It is BITTER by acclaimed chef Jennifer McLagan. McLagan, an Aussie who splits her time between Toronto and Paris, is the author Bones (2005)...
Outrage as Israel Seizes West Bank, Chicago and Stamford?
The government of the State of Israel announced Sunday that it would take nearly 1,000 acres of land in the West Bank for affordable housing. 1,000 acres is one of the largest acquisitions in three...
The Rambam’s 9th Level of Charity: Ice Bucket Challenges
Yes. I am a curmudgeon. You can’t look at Facebook or TV these days without seeing the latest Ice Bucket Challenge™ by a celebrity, friend, politician, marching band, rabbi, cantor, or summer...
Amal and the Night Inquisitors
Apologies to Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera title. Gabon ambassador Baudelaire Ndong Ella, the president of the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council, announced that the British-Lebanese lawyer and...
David’s Will Sit Shiva as Blank’s Shoot Pollard
The New York Times (and Roger Friedman’s Showbiz 411) report(s) that Seinfeld co-creator Larry David will debut on Broadway in March 2015 with a play about sitting shiva. I swear there was...
Love and Semen In A Time of War
NEWS FROM OPERATION PROTECTIVE EDGE Earlier this year, it was reported that Haifa’s Rambam Hospital’s fertility clinic was in crisis. Supplies of sperm samples were low –...