On Thursday, as the world was reading about Alice Munro, the recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature, the IDF SpokesModel (perhaps mad that Philip Roth was not the prize winner) tweeted that...
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1% of Orthodox Jews Have Xmas Trees?: Learnings from Pew’s Study of American Jews
Pew Research Center released its newest study of the American Jewish community, and there are few surprises, unless perhaps you would be surprised that 22% (or 1 in 5) replied that they describe...
Jewish Woman in Taiwan Goes Viral
Marina Shifrin leaned in… leaned in so far that her video has gone viral this week and it has accumulated more than 6.6 million views so far – 2.8 million in the past 12 hours. Shifrin is...
Shalom HoneyCake: The Annual Recipe Roundup
I am fresh from my holiday challah baking class at Breads bakery with Chef uri Scheft and reading recipes. In North America, it is not even Labor Day Weekend, and national newspapers are printing...
Ktown Synagogue Mashup?
This week, The New York Times profiled the expected rebirth of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. It had seen better times. Once known as the Temple of the Stars, built with donations from...
BackStory: Sam’s Viral BarMitzvah Video
You can hardly shake a lulav without seeing the latest viral bar mitzvah video online. It’s been hyperlinked by Heeb, the Dallas papers, Paper Magazine, MSN, TV Guide, buzz feeds, nearly every...