New York has had a turbulent few months at City Hall, and plenty of Jewish New Yorkers have felt it. Happily, the city still does one thing better than anywhere else, which is put on a show. Two...
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Music, Entertainment, Pop culture
Sydney Sweeney Has Good Jeans. Judaism Doesn’t Care.
Sydney Sweeney may or may not have gone to shul on Rosh Hashanah. The internet has already scheduled her bat mitzvah. Besties, that is not how any of this works. So you’ll remember that I spent...
Robert Kraft Turned Macklemore Into a Movement. Nice Work, Bob.
Let’s do some basic math. Before Robert Kraft got involved, Macklemore was booked to open eight of the ten remaining shows on Ed Sheeran‘s Loop tour. Eight nights of stadium crowds...
Same Story, Bigger Screen: NAZA and the Treason That Wasn’t, Until It Was
I haven’t seen NAZA. I mention this up front because it seems to be the one thing I have in common with nearly everyone in Israel who is currently furious about it. The film hasn’t...
Macklemore Sells Golf Pants. We Made Him a Martyr.
Macklemore said two words at the MetLife stadium and lost a tour. Yuval Abraham won a prize in Venice for NAZA and a minister came for his citizenship. I am a Zionist and I am asking my own people to...
If Jews Control the Banks, Explain This Menu.
By Jeremy Kossen There are certain conspiracy theories that refuse to die. For centuries, one of the dumbest has been that Jews secretly control the world’s banks, financial markets, and...
Hey Hannah!
So my mom was on the kitchen iPad this morning. This is her thing. She’s got the full Jewish content circuit going: Kveller, Hey Alma, back to Kveller, maybe My Jewish Learning if she’s...
New York Bagels: Secret Ingredient Wasn’t Water. It was Cancer.
New York is finally being forced to confront what the rest of the world figured out decades ago: that the secret to their legendary bagels wasn’t the water. It was a carcinogen. Albany just...