5 Tips for Looking Good at Your Zoom Seder or Online Happy Hour

With the rabbinate recommending an online seder on ZOOM or other conferencing app, here are some tips on looking good online. 1. MOISTURIZE 2. DRESS UP. Few colleagues or family members want...

Quarantined? Kosher for Pesach Wine Recommendations 2020

SO many colleagues are having online / livecast HAPPY HOURS; and some...

TJS S3 Interlude – the many faces of mercy

Sometimes you have to speak from the heart. Here are a few...

Zayde, it’s time to go

Yesterday, apologies were issued after reports that Bernie Sanders was going to...

SxSW Was Cancelled But Here Are Some Of Its Invited Bands You Can Enjoy Online

With the postponement of South by Southwest (SxSW) in Austin Texas this...

TJS S3E26 Eli Cohen, hero of Israel
By Rav Mike Feuer on 3/18/2020
Historians may argue about whether one person can shift the course of history, but everyone agrees that a hero can change the world. Here is...
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Shabbat Services Livecasts and LiveStreams
By larry on 3/17/2020
Firstly, I just need to mention that just in time for Parshat Ki Tisa, when the Israelites take a census, my mailbox contained a questionnaire...
CoronaTunes Dot IL – My CoVid-19 Quarantine Playlist
By larry on 3/14/2020
With so many residents in NY and NJ and across the USA under voluntary or mandatory self-quarantines; with over 500 cases of what is being...
TJS S3 Purim Interlude: Own your story
By Rav Mike Feuer on 3/5/2020
The Jewish Story is narrative therapy for a nation, but how can it also serve each of us in our quest to be actors in...
Breaking Bad Style Crystal Meth Hamantaschen
By ck on 2/23/2020
I get unsolicited requests to link to content all the time, but the 4th time some guy called Shimon Sandler of Kosher.com sent me an...
TJS S3 E24 Levi Eshkol – a new face of leadership
By Rav Mike Feuer on 2/17/2020
Old politicians never die, they just fade away. The era of Ben Gurion ended in 1963 and it appeared that his replacement, Levi Eshkol, could...
TJS S3 Interlude: some more questions
By Rav Mike Feuer on 2/11/2020
Why stop once with a good thing? Here is another interlude answering listener questions on Israel as a Jewish State. Hold out to the end...
TJS S3 Interlude: Redemption rant
By Rav Mike Feuer on 2/4/2020
Sometimes you just have to let loose, so here is a rant in response to some listener questions. It touches on the Trump Plan, the...
Chips with Dips: Sabra Hummus #Superbowl Ad to Feature Drag Queens
By larry on 1/30/2020
Drag queens Kim Chi and Miz Cracker will be featured in a 30 second Superbowl ad for Sabra brand hummus, North America’s market share leader...
Sundance 2020: Shabbat, Films, and Inclusion
By larry on 1/29/2020
Park City, UTAH — DOUBLE CHAI, BABY! The 36th Annual Sundance Film Festival ascended to Park City, and screened over 125, mostly independent, films and...
TJS S3E23 Spirit of the 60s part IV: the radical break
By Rav Mike Feuer on 1/24/2020
For a few brief weeks, it looked like 1968 would be a revolution in America on par with 1967 in Israel. This episode explores the...
TJS S3E21 The spirit of the 60s part II
By Rav Mike Feuer on 1/19/2020
1964 was the Freedom Summer in America, and it saw a wave of white, Jewish volunteers leaving the comfort of their suburban existence to fight...
8 Ways For Singles to Celebrate Hanukkah
By Guest Post on 12/25/2019
Every year at this time, Adam Sandler reminds us: “So much funukkah / To celebrate Hanukkah.” True—who doesn’t like donuts, latkes, candles, and dreidels? But...
Latkapalooza 2019: Latke Recipes Roundup and Washington Post’s Daring Reviews of Hummus
By larry on 12/22/2019
This month, as the House of Representative debated impeachment and voted for two counts to impeach the (ImPotus/POTUS) President of the United States Donald J....
Boyz II Menorah and Other 2019 Hanukkah Videos (Maccabeats, Six13, Y-STUDS, Billy Eichner, Mariah Carey, Radio City Menora-ckets and 12+ more)
By larry on 12/22/2019
Happy Hanukkah. The best if 2019 is James Corden’s BOYZ II MENORAH featuring James Corden, Zach Braff, Charlie Puth, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Josh Peck. So,...