Gwyneth Paltrow, the WASPiest looking woman on earth, a direct descendant of Rabbi David Ben Samuel Ha-Levi, a famous 17th-century authority on Jewish law, and great-great-great granddaughter of...
Author - Laya Millman
Sylvester Sameach!
When you have both a religious and secular New Years to celebrate, you need a way to not get them confused. So Israelis have taken to calling the January 1st New Year “Sylvester.” Why...
Munich: the love child of strange bedfellows
Steven Spielberg gives a pretty in depth interview to Roger Ebert about his no-win situation making “Munich”. Indeed, when opening up the Middle East for discussion you often get attacked...
Hippocampus wants YOU!
“history sounds different if you know where to listen” From the kitschy mind of Roger Bennett who brought you Bar Mitzvah Disco and Josh Kun, author of Audiotopia comes the latest Jew-pop...
Peres, Peretz and Paris; How to tell the difference
. The Israeli political scene keeps changing a lot lately and it’s getting harder and harder to follow all the developments. There’s Peretz elected to the Chairmanship of the Labor party...
If I forget thee, O Fink’s…
Every time I look at the cleaned out shell of what used to be the best, tiniest, you-would-never-know-it-was-there, hidden in plain sight, hole in the wall, historic, more stories than Hollywood...
Kazakhstan sues Ali G
Boy, Some Central Asian countries just can’t take a joke. Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry has it’s panties all up in ruffle and is threatening to sue comedian Sacha Baron Cohen aka...
Buy Nothing Day – Jew style
Today is Adbuster’s official Buy Nothing Day, where: For 24 hours, millions of people around the world do not participate — in the doomsday economy, the marketing mind-games, and the...