Earlier this year, a donor offered $100,000 to the Girl Scouts of Western Washington (aka Seattle-Tacoma). This single gift was about 5% of the regional group’s annual contributions and one...
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Peacamole? Can Pea-mmus Bring PEAce To The Mideast?
On Wednesday, July 1, The New York Times reported on a pea-filled version of guacamole recipe. The internet caught fire over this pea-infusion. U.S. President Barack Obama tweeted that he was against...
A Jewish Woman for a Sawbuck – the Redesign of the American $10 Bill
If U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew is to be believed – and as a Shomer Shabbos observing member of the Jewish tribe why should he not be believed – by the year 2020, a woman will...
JewliciousReels: Shalom Quito (and Guayaquil)
This month in NYC there are several film festivals. Kulturfest, the Israel FIlm Center and the JCC have Yiddish and Israeli films. The Human Rights Watch, American Black, Lower East Side, Rooftop...
Yidstock Lands at Central Park – Yiddish Soul Kulturfest
It was the night of June 16, 2015, James Joyce/Leopold Bloom’s Bloomsday to some, the night before Ramadan to others, and to about 3,000 in Manhattan, it was the first NYC Summerstage cantorial...
Did The Mossad Mess With His Shoes? #MossadStoleMyShoes
Asghar Bukhari in London, an anti Israel activist for over two decades, and a founding member of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK has accused Israeli agents of messing with his head, and...