Israel has some of the strangest graffiti. But This one in town takes the cake. It used to read: Suck the milk of the Gentiles, Judas Iscariot for Moshiach Now! Umm….What?? However, by the time...
Author - Laya Millman
First Rain!
I was just outside and everything was that yellow tone of a setting sun or Oklahoma day just before a tornado when it happened– the first rain drops of the season. It rained for just a few...
A rabbi and a football coach walk into a bar…
This is the stuff Disney movies are made of. Last week, The Norwalk High School Bears got a heter to play on Friday night. Normally, the ultra-sensitive team tries not to, as the shouting teenagers...
Why did the chicken cross the road?
To get away from the scary Hassid! In what is easily one of the most bizarre of all Jewish rituals, you might be…errr…lucky enough to catch a kapparot ceremony before Yom Kippur. What...
The Last Sin Is Always the Sweetest
Just in case you were a little too good this year and can’t think of anything to repent for , worry no longer. If you have tonight free in Jerusalem, there’s still time to squeeze in one...
Bombing
Sorry to kill the birthright Buzz, but unfortunetly, we had another bombing. A bus stop on French Hill in Jerusalem. Details here Read.
Some advice for the Palestinians
The Jerusalem Post reports that Since the beginning of 2001, 23 Palestinians, all holders of Israeli identity cards due to the family reunification program, were arrested by security forces for their...
ehh, it is a good film, no?
Three cheers for Israeli film making! Three Israeli films, The Syrian Bride, To Take a Wife and Amos Gitai’s Promised Land won a total of 7 prizes at the Montreal and Venice Film Festivals, two...