Jewcy is featuring a series of back and forth letters dealing with family and sex, between former New York magazine sex columnist Amy Sohn and Kosher Sex author, TV host, former Chabad shaliach and...
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Music, Entertainment, Pop culture
Debbie Gibson’s Mom Manages Chutzpah
[Esther’s note: This is not about “our Chutzpah,” who shares with us in the comments section. It is about Chutzpah, the self-proclaimed Jewish hip-hop “supergroup”.-EDK]...
Jewish Community Goes Virtual in Second Life
(In parts excerpted from/inspired by my JTA post, available in its entirety here.] The non-techheads among you might not know what Second Life is. But people in the know are aware that Second Life is...
Crack is Wack; Pot is Not (Kosher For Passover)
So much for using marijuana as Karpas. Yes, it’s leafy and yes, it’s green. But apparently, hemp seeds are not kosher for Passover. That is, if you’re Ashkenazi. The seeds belong to...
Festival of Chametz at The Knitting Factory, 3/31
Going into Pesach, it’s hard to give up your beloved carbalicious Chametz. But maybe if you do it at the Knitting Factory (74 Leonard Street), surrounded by great Israeli culture–music...
High Times at the Supreme Court
Ah, the US Supreme Court–bastion of our judiciary system, and trier of free speech cases aplenty. For instance, that of poor Joseph Frederick (of Juneau, Alaska), whose 2002 decision to greet a...
Catch A Rising (Jewish Literary) Star
You might think that since the Oscars are over, all awards have been distributed to all deserving artists the world over. But you’d be wrong, because when it comes to Jewish literature...
Team Groggerforce, Activate!
Form of…a noisemaker…shape of…an online petition campaign against nuclear attack. Love Hillel? Love Purim? Hate the threat of an imminent nuclear attack by Iran? (Yeah, me too.)...