Kosha Dillz created an album with C-Rayz Walz to showcase the similarities between Jews and blacks and their similar struggles. The song Ariel Sharon was meant to showcase lyrical prowess and...
Rabbi Tovia Singer and the Threat of Messianism
I remember when I was in high school – it was a private Jewish school – there was a special assembly one day where a man came to speak about religious cults. The school wanted to be sure to educate...
Ariel Sharon 1928 – 2014
I have always had mixed feelings about Ariel Sharon. Never one to fall in with the Israeli tradition of the cult of personality, – think Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin or David Ben-Gurion – I never...
Streep Slams Disney At Dinner
The setting was The National Board of Review dinner in Manhattan on Tuesday evening, an annual evening of private industry awards and celebrities without all the public hoopla of the People’s...
Dieudonne M’bala M’bala: Hate Speech Vs Freedom of Speech
French comedian – so called – Dieudonne M’bala M’bala has made headlines recently for his Jew hatred. Yes I said Jew hatred and not anti-Semitism. Let’s just call a spade a spade...
StandWithUs Israel: Defending Israel Amongst the Students of the World
I remember that when I was in college, at Columbia University in New York, there was a brick path that bisected the campus going east to west, from Broadway to Amsterdam Ave. This was where the...
NY Post Asks Who Didn’t Want the Hasid Dead?
The tabloid New York Post thrives on shock and controversy. It did not fail this morning when it asked “Who Didn’t Want Him Dead?” about the brutal New Year’s Eve murder of a...
SMFLA on Ovation TV
You could now check Shemspeed’s SMFLA featured on Ovation TV’s ‘The Art Of’ series. They followed us around and filmed The Sephardic Music Festival teaser party in LA. The...
Birthright Israel, Snow in Jerusalem and Giving Back
Those of you who followed my twitter feed, or had any friends visiting or living in Israel last week, were in all likelihood inundated with photo after photo of Jerusalem buried in three-days worth...
Budget Trucks Almost Killed me and all I got was This Letter
In response to renting me a truck that almost got me killed, I received the following email today from Budget. I might have to take this to court, I hear Abogado de Lesiones Personal Corpus Christi...