EL AL UP’s new safety video has garnered a lot of press and attention for the fledgling discount airline, receiving (not always flattering) coverage from the Times of Israel, the Jerusalem...
ShivaWatch – May 1, 2014
Some inspirational people passed away recently. Among them were: ASSI DAYAN. Assaf Dayan, actor and filmmaker, the son of a military leader and a peace activist, passed away this week in Tel Aviv at...
Netanyahu Goes on an Anti-Smartphone Rampage
Last week during a photo and interview session with the foreign press in Jerusalem, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu went on a bit of an anti-smartphone rampage. At first he wondered why the assembled...
Give Jews a Chance
Matchmaker, matchmaker, save the Jewish people! Jews of Los Angeles, stop making excuses for dating and marrying non-Jews. There are over 650,000 Jews right here in LA. Let’s say about half of...
Ilana Glazer Wants to Know how You Lost your Virginity
When Ilana Glazer of Broad City walks up to total strangers in the park and asks them how you they lost virginity, people answer! Why? Because people in New York are nice and they like sharing the...
The 600: Goodbye, Farewell And Amen
Tank cannon to the left of me, tank cannon to the right of me, tank cannon directly over my head roared the 600. – – Due to a combination of budget cuts and the retirement of its older...
That’s Not a Barmitzvah DJ! That’s Katy Perry!
Katy Perry’s video for her new single “Birthday” begins with an intro titled “World’s Worst Birthday Party Entertainers.” One of the entertainers is Bar Mitzvah...
Donald? Come On, Are You Serious?
I was busying myself this weekend reading about the Religion News Service (RNS) and their need of a new CEO and Publisher, when the news hit the internet about a racist rant allegedly made by Donald...
Torah vs. Israel?
Can the two be separated? Can a Jew, even one living in Israel, be Jewish, without Torah? Does living in Israel somehow replace the need for Torah? In his recently published Yom HaShoah article...
Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day 2014 from the Shuk in Jerusalem
This video was shot today at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem. Holocaust Remembrance Day began last night in Israel. All the flags are at half mast and last night there was a ceremony at Yad...