There were several unique Yom Kippur services this week. In South Florida, a longtime estranged father-daughter duo led services; he is a 65-year old rabbinical student, and she is a freelance...
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Bar Refaeli On Teeth and Israeli Underwear
Model Bar Refaeli appears on the September 2012 covers of most issues of MAXIM MAGAZINE, and a deeply extensive far ranging interview that lasts nearly one page appears inside. She discusses her past...
What Happens in the Kinneret Stays in the Kinneret
In August 2011, Republican members of the U.S. Congress and some of their staff members and spouses visited Israel on a trip that was sponsored and paid for by the American Israel Educational...
Yom Huledet Sameaj Madonna
Happy Birthday to superstar Madonna, a friend of Israel and popular Jewish mysticism, singer, dancer, entertainer, and author of Jewish folktale based books. Twenty years ago, around Purim 1992, a...
ShivaWatch: David Rakoff and Marvin Hamlisch
On Thursday night, as midnight approached, the essayist and author David Rakoff passed away in his Manhattan apartment. He had been battling a recurrence of cancer – a pain he thought had been...
Five Rings & A Star: Jewlicious Olympics Update 2
Andy Ram and Yoni Erlich, Israel’s tennis athletes, beat Spain in straight sets on Sunday during the Summer Olympics at Wimbledon and will now advance and perhaps face Switzerland and Roger...