It started when we lived in Warsaw and Rabbi Kastenbaum, our shochet, brought community-made slivovitz from Budapest to us for Passover. It was like nothing I had ever tried, was %70+ alcohol, and...
Category - Jewlicious Festival
10 years worth of Festivals – what a blast that was!
Thou Shalt Unplug Theyself – Reboot Your Week On Shabbat
Unplugging from the wired world sounds ideal, but impossible. We have never been more connected than we are now, and taking a break even for a nano-second can seem unconscionable. But now, fresh from...
Purimpalooza VII Rewind
Two weeks ago Los Angeles was rocked by a Purim party of Olympic proportions. JConnectLA, the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, and Atid – the young professional group of Sinai Temple...
An Oscar For Tarantino
With all the buzz in LA this week about the Oscar voting – here is my vote— Inglorious Basterds should win Best Picture, and many other accolades for Quentin Tarantino and his brilliant cast...
Festival Schedule is Online!
In the past, we have had organizational resistance to putting our Festival Schedule online. Folks were concerned that potential competitors would be handed a veritable blue print for what we do and...
Boxing Champ and Future Rabbi Yuri Foreman Featured in LA Times
See him at Jewlicious this weekend! The LA Times featured Yuri Foreman in an article today: Foreman, the unbeaten “Lion of Zion,” became the latest to join the list after twice knocking...