The first time Megan Phelps Roper and I interacted was just before Yom Kippur in 2009. In a now famous tweet she spoke about Judaism’s “dead rote rituals” and chided me for...
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Israelis Want to Know: What are American Jews Like?
One of the issues of concern to those in the Jewish world of late, has been the growing divide between Jews in Israel and Jews in America. There are about 6.5 million Jews in Israel and 5.3 million...
Is My Name David or Dayveed?
One of the cool things about the whole Westboro Baptist thing is that former member Megan Phelps Roper is really compelling. So compelling that she gets interviewed. A lot. And in some of those...
Nasty Show?
One of the signature shows of Montreal’s Just for Laugh’s Comedy Festival is the Nasty Show. Billed as “the most raw, shocking, foul, filthy comedy show of the Festival”...
Maz Jobrani, Ethnics and Montreal’s Comedy Festival
Iranian / American comic Maz Jobrani is performing at Just For Laughs – the Montreal Comedy Festival. He’s got a solo show on July 23, He’s part of the Howie Mandel All-Star Comedy...
Is Natalie Portman a BDS Supporter?
No Dummy. We recently reported that Natalie Portman declined to attend a ceremony in Israel, where she was to be awarded the $2 million Genesis Prize. As a result, the ceremony was cancelled –...