In May 2018, novelist and son of Newark, Philip Roth passed away at the age of 1985. On this Saturday, July 20, 2019, many of his household items from Litchfield County, Connecticut will be auctioned...
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JewliciousReads: Summers Reads – Jewish Summer Beach Reads 2019
I just binge watched two seasons of the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel to the chagrin of Mr. Podhoretz. I had avoided it, fearing stereotypes, but I watched it and found it satisfying. While many – like...
ShivaWatch: Stars of Disney, the Exodus, and the London Art Scene, as Well as Auschwitz’s ‘Woman in...
We are saddened to report that: A star of Disney Channel shows and two Adam Sandler films passed away at the age of twenty from an ongoing medical condition. Cameron Boyce is best known for his roles...
Cusack Learns to Not “Say (or Tweet) Anything” and The Riche$t Israelis, SCOTUS, NYPD, Auction, Kashrut and...
Actor John Cusack, 52, apologized for retweeting a cartoonish meme or meme-ish cartoon of a Star of David-tagged sleeve and arm squashing free speech to his over one million followers. The graphic...
Parkland Survivor Will Not Be Joining Harvard’s Hillel in Fall
To paraphrase the script for the 1942 film, Casablanca, “…it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of a recent high school graduate from Florida and his acceptance to Harvard...
Israelis Help To DeepFake Facebook’s Zuckerberg
Oh.. talk about that start-up nation and technology prowess… Earlier this month, Facebook declined to remove a video that was manipulated to make U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)...
Shiva Watch: Wouk, Pei, Berkun
HERMAN WOUK (pronounced woke) passed away today at the age of 103 at his home in Palm Springs, California. In ten days he would have turned 104. The cause of his death was not announced. Prior to...
My Ramadan Treat: Binge Watching Ramy on Hulu
An uncomfortable delight is binge watching what some say is the first successful Muslim-American situation comedy series in America: RAMY. Distributed on Hulu.com, the series is loosely based on the...