Thanks to the kind generosity of 16th Street JCC in DC, I scored two tickets to go see Ivri Lider at 9:30 Club. I am not going to link to the Wikipedia on Ivri Lider, because if you don’t know...
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Shavu-what?
Neither my husband ( henceforth Mr. B) or I are particularly religious.  Because of the Great Soviet Educational Anti-Semitic and Atheist Experiment, we both know close to nothing about Judaism...
Rebecca Rubin: Yiddishe American Girl
American Girl, those dolls that real-life Russian Jewish immigrants from the Pale of Settlement (Odessa)Â could never afford when I was growing up, has added a Russian Jewish doll to its collection...
Successful Jewish Tweetup in DC!
If you’re wondering what I’ve been up to while I’ve been not posting stories about life from Ze Mother Country, I’ve been scheming. There are no Jews in DC. Or, at least...
How does Israel create its own economic growth? (Also, Gringotts...
There are two constant fears in the Russian Jewish community. The first is that daughters will sit at the corners of tables and, thus will never get married. The second is that Obama will never...
Jews of DC (and the metro area), Unite!
If you are A) A Jew B) Live in the DC Metro Area and C) Are curious about what Russian Jews drink at happy hour in a strictly anthropological sense, come to the first EVAR DC Area Jewish Tweetup...