What will you be reading this Summer in the Northern Hemisphere of Earth? Please add your recommendations in the comments below. Among the book I have started to read or am recommending are: How to...
Shocker: Oldham Apologizes for Playboy Remarks
Well, here is a shocker. Actor Gary Oldham (Harry Potter, Air Force One, Dracula) has apologized for the remarks he made in an interview in this month’s Playboy magazine in which he defended...
Israeli Goes Viral For Britney
GAL VOLINEZ is an Israeli video artist, a struggling Tel Aviv resident. Two weeks ago, he posted a video titled, ‘Work Bitch,’ which adapts a music video by Britney Spears and inserts his...
NewsBits: Was Synagogue Worker Too Jewish?
Ellen Gastwirth is suing her former employer, Temple Judea of Manhasset, Long Island, NY in Brooklyn’s federal-court. She was the director of education at the liberal synagoguere, but believes...
Is Met Opera Production of “Klinghoffer” Racist
This Fall, New York City’s Metropolitan Opera will produce and stage John Adam’s “The Death of Klinghoffer,” and simulcast it live across the world in over 1,800 theaters...
Commencement Roundups: From Yeshiva and Wake Forest to USC
Precious moments were expereince during the Omer period in May and June as schools held their commencements. Some Jewish wisdom was imparted to the graduates. These included speeches at the following...
@HiddenCash: Israeli Hides Money ‘Round The World
A Haifa-bred, San Francisco Bay Area based entrepreneur has been hiding money in various places and tweeting out clues from his @HiddenCash Twitter account. Initially he was doing this anonymously...
Macklemore beat boxes for Kosha Dillz
In Kosha Dillz’s latest vlog , he attends a Macklemore show at the Nokia Theatre and trades freestyles with Macklemore backstage, rapping about “the irish guy and the kid with jewish star...
Cantor Sings Sad Song – in Virginia
U.S. Congressman Eric I. Cantor, the majority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives was surprisingly defeated by a Tea Party affiliated candidate who challenged Cantor in a Republican primary...
Gay Porn, Pinkwashing and Tel Aviv Pride
Next Friday Tel Aviv will celebrate Gay Pride with a weekend full of parties, parades and events of all kinds. While this event is pretty unique in the Middle East, self-styled...