The great kitniyot debate continued. In Jewish Law and custom, there is rarely just one reason given for doing (or not doing) a particular thing. Not eating Kitniyot (products made from seeds and...
Author - Laya Millman
Because we were slaves: Erev Passover
As we go into Passover tonight and recall that the central theme of our people’s biblical narrative is our own experience of slavery, let us not harden our hearts. What is the point of our...
ROI120: the invitation
Part of what we hope to do here on Jewlicious is simply to get our collective minds turning and thinking about Jewish stuff. If we are doing our jobs at all (or perhaps despite our presence) some of...
Israel jumps the shark
If The State of Israel were a TV show, this would be the desperate season. Pulling out all the stops to bring up the ratings; First there was Disengagement (action shots). Then the (near) death of a...
Warhol’s “Jewish Geniuses”
From Ynet London’s National Portrait Gallery has opened an exhibit of enigmatic artist Andy Warhol’s Jewish Personalities. The paintings showed in London date from 1980 and display in...
Seder Survival Guide Contest
Brought to you by Jewlicious and When Do We Eat? Did you ever type in Jewlicious.com, but then cock your head to the side and think “Jewlicious, what have you done for me lately?” I know...
Election Day in Israel
And almost no one is voting. Adding to the often backwards and sometimes Alice in Wonderland-like nature of this country, early reports say this will be the lowest voter turnout ever in Israeli...
As if we needed any new sins to commit…
…voting for Kadima apparently applies. National Religious Party’s spiritual leader Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu has declared it so. Voting for any party which supported disengagement is, as...