The NY Times gives us the absurd story of an Israel figure skater who qualified for the Olympics, but did not qualify to make the Israeli Olympic team. Tamar Katz, the three-time national champion...
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Franny and Zooey Go To Heaven
“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else’s.” J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey After 45 years of hiding from the...
What are they saying?!
Hat tip to Ynetnews for writing about this. Three Jewish Israelis sit and discuss Israel with three Palestinians. In Arabic. From the Israeli side, Avi Melamed, a history teacher by profession...
Tux!
Shlomo Sand is Angry at His Critics
Ooooh, the man is really angry. Shlomo Sand (also known as Shlomo Zand) is angry that historians like Simon Schama have critiqued his work unfavorably. Does he bother to refute their claims? No, he...
An Oldie but a Goodie
Nina Simone singing Eretz Zavat Halav! We’re here to entertain you. (Video is fixed so check it out if you missed it the first time!)
Shlomo Sand Excoriated for Shoddy History Once Again
This is getting to be such a bad habit. This time it’s the Guardian – no particular friend of Israel, this publication – which has a London Rabbi, Jonathan Wittenberg, review the...
Remember when some of us on Jewlicious railed against the status quo on agunot?
Look, over the years here on Jewlicious, we’ve had some uncomfortable debates about aspects of halacha – Jewish law – that to some of us appeared outdated and WRONG, and to others...