If you are like me, you watch the televised NFL Superbowl game for the ads. In 2014, a 30 second spot sold for about $4 million. To many, the ads are more exciting than the game and halftime...
Clay Aiken for U.S. Congress. Good For The Jews?
This morning, after a month of rumors, Educator, reality television series celebrity, and Raleigh, NC-based musician Clay Aiken officially announced that he is running for U.S. Congress in North...
Weekender, Jewlicious Style
Jewlicious Festival X: an event like no other. Bringing together young Jews and leaders from across the nation and Southern California to explore, engage, and create a synthesis for the ultimate...
Letters to an American Jewish Friend: a Zionist Polemic, by Hillel Halkin: a Book Review
Letters to an American Jewish Friend: A Zionist Polemic, by Hillel Halkin, Geffen Books, 2013, 246 pages. Hillel Halkin was born in 1939 and moved to Israel in 1970. He is an author, a translator and...
What’s Your Favorite Woody Allen Movie?
So asked Dylan Farrow in a piece published in the New York Times yesterday where she details a sexual assault “allegedly” perpetrated by her adoptive Father Woody Allen. I mention...
Birthright Tel Aviv: A Simple Solution
There was a big hullabaloo over at EJewish Philanthropy that began with an otherwise innocuous and well meaning article by my dear friend, educator, comedian and hummus enthusiast Benji Lovitt. In...
Viewing King David as a Real Historical Figure
It’s The Jewish Channel’s brand-new show, Up Close. News anchor Steven I. Weiss goes in-depth on the issues with interviews and small panels. On this first episode, we explore historical...
Best 5 minutes of the last week! Thanks Sarah Silverman
No, no, get your head out of the gutter! I was talking about this new Sarah Silverman PSA (click on the headline to see more):
Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Aron Milchan, by Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman: A Book...
Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Aron Milchan, by Meir Doron and Joseph Gelman, Geffen Books, 2011, 288 pages. Arnon Milchan is best known in America today as a...
Canadian PM Harper visits the Knesset, hilarity ensues
Sometimes events are so amusing they overtake fiction, and so it went with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his visit to the Knesset. As we noted on this very site a couple of years ago...