The 14th Street Y, Sixth Street Community Synagogue, PresenTense Magazine and the Sephardic Music Festival presents: The Balagan Boogaloo! The Sephardic, Freestyle, Afro Beat, Bhangra & Israeli...
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Music, Entertainment, Pop culture
Jewish Living Magazine!
Kind of like Oyprah or Martha Jewart Living* A new Jewish magazine is available at your local magazine rack. Called Jewish Living it sells on newstands for $4.95 or you can shell out $19.95 for an...
Bukowski’s Bungalow
Was Bukowski a Nazi/sympathizer? Does it matter in issues concerning turning his old bungalow into a civic monument? Here’s a choice old quote to remember the bum by and a story about a...
Tefillin are the bomb
I have always wondered what fellow passengers on trains, planes, buses, and cars have thought of the box strapped to my head with black leather. My Tefillin. What do they think of these bobbing...
“Bush is very ugly!”
“Abbas is very ugly! Olmert is very ugly! Hanniyeh is good!” A local shared these words of wisdom with me on a recent trip to Ramallah. I was standing around the bus station (as it were)...
Sarah Silverman is a Moron and the Writers’ Strike Is Exhibit A
Hollywood’s “A-List” celebrities take to a new cause reminding us that the War in Iraq is SO last week! For more hating on Silverman, click here.
Being Thankful for Family, and “The Family”
Obviously in this season of Thanksgiving, one of the things that people are most thankful for is the embrace of their family: sometimes a little tighter than we’d like or perhaps edging on...
Jewish Music Stars Align at Idan Raichel Concert
As if attending an Idan Raichel Project show wasn’t exciting enough — and it is, believe me — last night’s show at the Fillmore East in NYC featured a spontaneous performance...