A prominent BDS activist professor of Palestinian descent by the name of Steven Salaita has become a centerpiece in the fight over Israel on campus and the right of universities to prevent a hostile...
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Selichot Like You’ve Never Heard Them Before!
Selichot are special prayers for forgiveness that are recited on fast days as well as during the period just before Yom Kippur. These prayers are generally recited just before dawn as the Jewish...
JewliciousHealth: Checking Breasts and Genes
Up until last week, Ashkenazi Jewish women who had relatives with breast or ovarian cancer were told to be tested for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic mutations. These (BR)east (CA)ncer markers can highly...
Endurance Art At Columbia: Intimate Mattress
Image source: Review.org Like Atlas who carried the weight of the world, or Sisyphus, who struggled with a weight on an incline, Columbia University Senior Emma Sulkowicz is carrying around her navy...
Its Because We’re Jews!
So I have been reading all sorts of Facebook posts and editorials since the fighting in Gaza first began two months ago that have been critical of the international media’s coverage of the conflict...
Jewlicious Reads: A Calculated Shiva
What if a mob of socially inept math geniuses crashed your mom’s shiva? The Mathematician’s Shiva. A novel by Stuart Rojstaczer (September 2, 2014, Penguin, 384 pages mixes Jewish family...
Jewlicious Eats: Bitter To Swallow
A unique cookbook appeared in my kitchenette this week. It is BITTER by acclaimed chef Jennifer McLagan. McLagan, an Aussie who splits her time between Toronto and Paris, is the author Bones (2005)...
And in the end, the Love you take is equal to the offers you make.
I believe you can only truly hate a person if you at one point loved them. You don’t even necessarily have to be aware of it. It could be a such a small acute version of love- fleeting, for a...