A few weeks ago (yes, this post is very delayed), I was sent a package of Jones Hanukkah Soda to review for Jewlicious. Of course the bright pink color of the Jelly Donut soda and the light brown of...
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Huckacide
[update] Gilchrist endorses Huckabee… LITTLE ROCK, AR – In Iowa today, former Arkansas Governor and Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee received a major endorsement from Jim Gilchrist, founder...
Battle of the Beneficent Beverages
Remember how before the Superbowl, Bud used to stage its really weird “Bud Bowl,” in which Bud Light and Budweiser (regular) would go up against each other and battle on something that...
Romeo and Jewliet
Same procedure as every year? This year it was the NYT’s turn to address the issue of celebrating the holidays among interfaith families. There are two aspects of that article that I’d...
Shavuah Tov! Hanukkah 5th Night.
Howdy! I’m getting ready for what is sure to be an extremely bizarre Hanukkah party in Tel Aviv, part of the GoEight series of parties, sponsored by Taglit-birthright israel, JDub Records and...
Yiddish Theater: A Love Story – The New Film by Dan Katzir
I met Dan Katzir (as in Ephraim Katzir, the fourth President of Israel) shortly after I made Aliyah in 2005. I was just a bushy-tailed, bright-eyed American girl fresh off the boat and on an...
Fear and Loathing at the National Menorah
Two nights ago, I attended the lighting of the National Menorah. First, let me say thank you to the President and the First Lady for allowing us to use their lawn. Second, the menorah was GIANT. I...
Ham for Hanukkah!
This photo, taken by Nancy Kay Shapiro and then reproduced in Gothamist, at first seems like a silly error, the product of some clueless clerk at Balducci’s. But then I read Bah, Hanukkah by...