What a week for newsbits. Last Friday, as Passover was concluding, The New York Times published a front page.. FRONT PAGE… story on some male, Orthodox Jewish air passengers who ask for seat...
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Tak Boleh Tahan. What if Singapore Cheryl was Jewish?
Perhaps you heard about the math problem from a Singapore high school Olympiad exam that is stumping people on the internet-lah. Ah gong was acting like a ya ya papaya, pretending that to a Singapore...
My Aunt Selma Was That Jew for Rand Paul
Are you aware of that hubbub, that tempest in a kosher for Passover teapot over Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) U.S. presidential campaign website? The web designers behind Rand Paul’s...
JewliciousEats: Passover Recipes 2015 – from Kaifeng to Milwaukee to Barcelona
In Kaifeng China, about four dozen Chinese of Jewish heritage and their guests gathered in a hotel for a seder on Friday evening. They dined on haroset of red jujube paste and a salad of bitter...
Rambam says: Beware of Matza Stomach
Rambam warns of matza stomach. I mean Rambam Hospital in Israel, not the rabbi. Jesse Lachter, a leading Israeli gastroenterologist and teacher at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa said that Passover...
Passover TV: Mad Men Don Draper’s Seder
A lot of TV choices in North America as the third day of Pesaj began. You could watch four-plus hours of The Ten Commandments on ABC, or the premiere of the final season of Mad Men on AMC. Or mash it...