People Magazine named nearly a dozen Jewish men as being among the sexiest on the planet Earth in 2013. Adam Levine was named the sexiest, as was reported by Jewlicious.com last week. In terms of...
NYT’s Front Page’s Israeli Breast
On Erev Hanukkah, The New York Times featured an Israeli Jewish breast on its front page. With a dateline from Kfar Saba, the story focused on the push in Israel for woemn to be screened for the...
Elana and Jamie’s 8-Days of Jerusalem Donuts: Day 1 – Marzipan
Elana studies at Pardes. Jamie is a new immigrant to Israel. Both live in Jerusalem. This Hanukkah they decided to hit up a bakery a day and try and review the sufganiyot on offer at each. Today was...
Arik Einstein 1939-2013
Wow. He is gone. I think I speak for many when I say that his music was the soundtrack for Israel. What a terrible loss and how grateful we all are that he was around to share his gifts with us all...
Baruch Dayan Ha’emet: One Fan’s Ode to Arik Einstein of Blessed Memory, 1939-2013
You and I will change the world. You and I, and so everyone will come. Say it first, Before me, It doesn’t matter. You and I will change the world. Maybe these words lose something in...
Moshav ft. Matisyahu “World on Fire” (Official Music Video)
In time for Chanukah, Moshav releases its new music video, “World on Fire” featuring Grammy-nominated artist, Matisyahu. At a time when holiday shoppers are tripping over each other to...
The Sephardic Music Festival hits NYC
Shemspeed and Bancs Media announce their 9th Sephardic Music Festival which will take place in NYC this Chanukah, Nov 30th – 5th in NYC, as well as a hot teaser event Dec 3rd in L.A. THE 9TH NY...
About Those Iran Nuclear Negotiaions… And All the Treats of Thanksgivukkah
Thanksgivukkah treats to light, wear and eat (product info here); Israel provides aid to the Philippines; New Jersey’s second-largest city has a 36-year-old mayor and he’s Jewish; former...
Jews are Sexy in 2013
You know, not everyone is opposed to Jewish intermarriage. Advocates say that when Jews reproduce with non-Jews it expands our gene-pool. Given all the congenital ailments that Jews, Ashkenazi Jews...
A Chabad Rabbi Tries Claiming that Jewish Denominational Labels Don’t Matter [but unconvincingly]
Less than a week ago, an opinion piece appeared on the Jewish Week’s website that I’ve seen that has been shared at least a dozen times on friends’ Facebook pages but often without...