The Queen’s Gambit and Jewish Exclusion By Cevin Soling, President of Spectacle Films and Xenu Records, and Harvard Academic Picture a movie about a person from Albania enduring a hardscrabble life...
TJS S4E15 Yom Kippur War III – breaking the concept
Sometimes the ideas we hold most dear are those which prevent us from seeing that which is most important. Here is an episode about the ‘concept,’ the security analysis paradigm which...
Five Wines and a Kugel – More Passover Recipes 2021
Even more Passover recipes have been posted for 2021 (see the earlier posting HERE. ) Jake Cohen’s JEW-ISH cookbook hitting America’s Top 10 Non Fiction list with over 8000 copies sold in...
Foolproof Mufletta Recipe & Muflettapalooza / Mimouna Invite!
Probably while you are working feverishly to prepare your house for Passover, the last thing you’re thinking of is the Chametz Festival that takes place at Jewish Moroccan homes at the end of...
Cobra K – Kosher for Passover Hechshers and 2021 Annual Recipe Roundup
As Pesach 2021 approaches, trhe media and internet are filled with new recipes and hechshers to help us elevate our holidays. I have heard a lot of buzz about Cobra K, which I am assuming is a KoP...
TJS S4E13 Yom Kippur War part I: the context for surprise
If we call what happened in the 1967 a war of the spirit, then what occurred seven years later was a struggle of psychology. Here is the first episode leading up to the 1973 Yom Kippur War. It...
Each Day, A New Call For an Apology
Each morning, I awake in anticipation of a new call for an apology Did it start with the uproar of NBC’s Saturday Night Live? The twitter-sphere was filled with calls for NBC to APOLOGIZE for...
Who Said Hamantashen Must Taste Good, and Spuds Have Genders? A Schmear Campaign
Oy, what a week. Purim arrives. A crazy Member of Congress from Georgia attacked her neighboring Congressional colleague over her daughter’s gender identity; savory, tasty oil fried Potato...
TJS S4 Interlude: Vengeance, an interview with Thane Rosenbaum
The desire to get even is as old as Cain and Abel, so what new could possibly be said about it? Here is an interview with author Thane Rosenbaum where we explore the nature of vengeance, its...
TJS S4E12 The 1972 Munich Massacre
The whole world watched in horror as the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games raised the bar on international terror to previously inconceivable heights. The events...