The Jewish peoples’ Exodus from Egypt is arguably the main event in the Torah narrative. Three millennia later we are called to remember it every day in our prayers, every week on Shabbat...
Author - Laya Millman
Home again, home again, jiggity jig
To market to market to buy some fresh figs? Finally, I made it back to Israel. Six weeks and three continents are just too much. I never want to leave my apartment again. Or at least not until I get...
Heeb in Jtown
Heeb’s Storytelling makes it to the holy city, and Mobius gets a nice mention in the Jpost; “Sieradski is probably best known in the Jewish world as the editor-in-chief of the popular...
“you know the word kibbutz is actually Hebrew for ‘fuck farm'”
That was one of the lines Jon Stewart pulled out in banter with audience members from Israel this evening, and it certainly a memerable one. That’s right, ck and I had the wonderful privileged...
Good Purim, Good Purim.
I have a confession: I hate Purim. When I tell people this they look at me like I have no soul. I’m not sure what it is exactly, but I think it has something to do with the fact that I have...
Tribe the Film – See what all the fuss is about
Premiering in Los Angeles on Thurs Mar 30, 8pm at the Egyptian Theater For anyone who may have played with Barbie dolls, are Jewish, or are Jew-Curious. The Tribe An award-winning film about the...
Otherness – that’s so Diaspora
Be it in the film Tribe (which I loved) or in Jennifer Bleyer’s essay Among the Holy Schleppers, I see it all over – A Jewish identity based on otherness, being an outsider, or an...
The many faces of Rabbi Yo
Introducing… Also known as Rabbi Yonah Bookstein, Rabbi Yo is one of the most Jewlicious people we know. In addition to being a Rabbi, activist, musician, husband, father, Fulbright scholar and...