History is all about telling the story after the fact, but there is a particular wisdom to be gained in the heat of the moment which is easily lost in hindsight. The first episode of season four...
Barack’s Summer 2020 Playlist Omits Israeli Tunes
ALAS! On August 18, 2020, former U.S. President and Senator Barack Obama tweeted out his annual playlist, the songs he is listening to in order to chill and get through the pandemic. Some of those...
On Turning 50 and Other Observations
So I turned 50 recently and I noticed something. People kept on congratulating me, with extra emphasis, as if I had actually achieved something. You now like I had won an Olympic medal or published a...
If Seth Rogen’s Parents had just Stayed in Israel…
So Nick Cannon went off on Jews in a Louis Farrakhan-inspired diatribe and got his ass handed to him when ViacomCBS cut all ties with him. He later apologized, had a nice chat with the Wiesenthal...
Seth Rogen Loves The Jews
Stoner Logic The usual suspects are all up in arms about some statements made during Mark Maron’s WTF podcast during an interview with comedian Seth Rogen. The podcast was meant to promote...
Jewish Twitter Users Boycott Platform for 48 Hours to Protest Antisemitism
A large and diverse coalition of twitter users have announced that they are boycotting Twitter for 48 hours as a result of the social media platform’s relative inactivity in the face of...
Satan Invents Marmite Hummus
Marmite is a brown, sticky, food spread, made from yeast extract and beloved by many in the anglo world. It’s definitely an acquired taste and I never gave it any thought until they messed with...
Biking in Jerusalem at Warp Speed!
I was just messing around with my GoPro Hero 8 Black and decided I was finally going to test out the TimeWarp 2.0 feature which promised super-stabilized time lapse videos while moving. I attached my...
JewliciousEats: Sami’s Turn. Falastin, a cookbook
FALASTIN: A COOKBOOK by Sami Tamimi with Tara Wigley, and a foreword by Yotam Ottolenghi Late Spring 2020 Ten Speed Press. Yotam Ottolenghi has written several very popular, best selling cookbooks;...
TJS Live: Heralds of Zion I Rav Alkalai and Rav Kalischer
The first in the ‘Heralds of Zion’ series. After introducing the two essential elements of Zionism, we explore its roots in classical religious thinking and how modernity forced an...