This is my third in a series of posts on the GA. You can see my previous post about the GA itself. I was tired after a long day of standing around talking with people at the different exhibits. I...
World Amazed That A Rabbi Is Honest?
What gives? Every media outlet is just dumbfounded and amazed that a rabbi in Connecticut who purchased a desk online and found money in it, was honest, and he returned the cash discreetly (well as...
From The JFNAGA 2013: 2 Important Non Profts
This is my second in a series of posts on the GA. This and others will focus on the people who came to the GA to promote various causes. You can see my previous post about the GA itself. A number of...
Dr. Ruth Answers The Jewish Channel Viewers on Sex
The U.S. agenda for Israeli-Palestinian peace; Comic artist Art Spiegelman (Maus) gets a retrospective at The Jewish Museum; Dr. Ruth Westheimer vistis TJC’s “The Salon”; the...
The Jewish Federation of North America General Assembly 2013
The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) hold an annual convention so that its members and leaders can meet to discuss the issues that confront the North American Jewish Community, share ideas...
How Does the NY Times Keep Getting it Wrong?
I cancelled my subscription to the NY Times a couple of years ago after many years of being a loyal subscriber. The reason was my fatigue at reading the endless anti-Israel commentary and reporting...
Two Haredi “Rising Stars”
Rising Star, the licensed “Idol” TV singing contest on Israel Channel 2, has made stars of young men and women, guest workers, settlers, Arab-Israelis, Jewish Israelis, and now two...
Turning Rambam & Solomon Schechter Into Fictional Characters
Obama’s latest directive on Iran; Paula Abdul’s bat mitzvah in Israel; a new film in Yiddish, “The Pin,” opens in NY and LA; the doors of the Cairo Geniza come to NY;...
Thanksgivukah or Thanksgivukkah? Overplayed?
Heeb is already post-Thanksgivukah and senses it is overplayed. Other media are using the coincidental dates to generate interest and revenue. And most readers are not paying attention. But for those...
Chaya Lester, Babel’s Daughter and the Shalev Center
This is another in a series that I am writing about Nachlaot. Chaya Lester runs the Shalev Center with her husband Hillel. She was born in Memphis Tennessee in 1974 and likes to tell stories about...