Yiddish Folk Tales! Klezmer music! Belly Dancing! No, this is not about my recent dating life, but rather it’s a show taking place from April 29th to June 5th at the Santa Monica Playhouse...
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Operation Eternal Passover: Postcard From the Front
Around Day 2 of Operation Eternal Passover (begun a day early at my parents’ New Jersey home because of Shabbat), it hit me: there were 36 hours left until I could use my computer. Even then, I...
Real Man’s Guide To Passover Cooking
Okay, so I’m reading the news and ynet has articles about cooking matzah brei replete with recipes and fond nostalgic memories. Matzah brei? That’s the best they can do? Don’t get...
Free your mind; thoughts on Pesach
I fell in love with Judaism through a certain hippy spiritual branch of it, and many of my perspective on it are colored with that lens. It is only when I leave that environment or straighter people...
Premarital sex on Passover?
There, got your attention. But this is just a post wishing you all a happy Passover. Everybody out there have a great chag that brings you closer to your family and friends, and of course to our fine...
Matzah Rap!
Yet another Passover-based animation, this time from the good folks at Jib Jab – thanks to BibleKing18 for the heads up. It’s pretty funny though a tad racy at times. Those of you with...
Philip Roth talks to Saul Bellow
The New Yorker reproduced notes taken by Philip Roth during informal conversations he had with Saul Bellow. The focus is on Bellow’s early works but the verbatim nature of the notes are...
Is AIPAC in some steamy doodoo?
We’ve been covering this story for a while. Here. Here. And here. Unbelievably, the third worst scenario is now playing out. AIPAC has fired the two men who are under investigation by the FBI...