As we stay at home this year, I thought that I would suggest a few good movies about Pesach to watch. This was not an easy task since most movies based on the Bible, or about Jews, suck. Either they...
JewliciousEats: Annual Passover Recipe Roundup 2020 (KISS: Keep It Simple, Seder)
This year, on planet Earth, with so many households in quarantine, it will be difficult or risky to obtain the ingredients necessary to prepare some of the items listed below in this year’s...
Your Kippah Face Mask: What Started as a Dutch Purim Joke is Now a Reality
On Friday, April 3, 2020, the CDC-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States recommended that everyone wear non-medical grade face masks to fight the coronavirus Covid19 pandemic...
Elijah is Quarantined. Not Coming to My Zoom Seder. But Here are Some New Haggadot Nevertheless
Was it Shalom Hanoch who sang that his friend Moshiach isn’t coming. He isn’t even Going to Telefon? I fear that Eliyahu Ha Navi is not coming either. He is quarantined like the rest of...
Joe Exotic’s (Tiger King’s) Jewish Brother and 10 Shows to Binge During Quarantine
When I binged “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” a new 2020 docu-series (or more reality series) on NETFLIX, I hated all the characters and would not have been upset had the lions...
ShivaWatch: Profiles of Our Grief
A nefarious virus has taken the beloved people from our midst. May their families be comforted, may our memories of them and their good deeds and mitzvot serve as a blessing, a prayer. As Rabbi Lord...
4 Ideas for an Alison Roman Passover Seder
I have about four Google Hangout and Zoom meetings a day with various teams, not to mention the cool livecast with Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks from his study in Golders Green, London, today. And do you...
Keeping Anti-Semitic Crashers Out of Your Zoom Seder, Meeting, Event, Class, or Happy Hour
I was participating in a recent Zoom meeting with over 300 attendees when an anti-Semitic bastard chimed in with anti-Jewish comments. He had zoom-bombed this Jewish-affiliated group’s meeting...
5 Tips for Looking Good at Your Zoom Seder or Online Happy Hour
With the rabbinate recommending an online seder on ZOOM or other conferencing app, here are some tips on looking good online. 1. MOISTURIZE 2. DRESS UP. Few colleagues or family members want to see...
Quarantined? Kosher for Pesach Wine Recommendations 2020
SO many colleagues are having online / livecast HAPPY HOURS; and some friends need to drink to watch UNORTHODOX on NETFLIX; it can’t hurt to stock up on wines that are Kosher for Passover that...