A large and diverse coalition of twitter users have announced that they are boycotting Twitter for 48 hours as a result of the social media platform’s relative inactivity in the face of...
Satan Invents Marmite Hummus
Marmite is a brown, sticky, food spread, made from yeast extract and beloved by many in the anglo world. It’s definitely an acquired taste and I never gave it any thought until they messed with...
Biking in Jerusalem at Warp Speed!
I was just messing around with my GoPro Hero 8 Black and decided I was finally going to test out the TimeWarp 2.0 feature which promised super-stabilized time lapse videos while moving. I attached my...
JewliciousEats: Sami’s Turn. Falastin, a cookbook
FALASTIN: A COOKBOOK by Sami Tamimi with Tara Wigley, and a foreword by Yotam Ottolenghi Late Spring 2020 Ten Speed Press. Yotam Ottolenghi has written several very popular, best selling cookbooks;...
TJS Live: Heralds of Zion I Rav Alkalai and Rav Kalischer
The first in the ‘Heralds of Zion’ series. After introducing the two essential elements of Zionism, we explore its roots in classical religious thinking and how modernity forced an...
K-Pop Playbook: How the #JewishPrivilege Twitter Trend Got Slammed
A few days ago, the hashtags of #JewishPrivilege, #Jewish Privelege (sic.), and #JewishPriveledge (sic.) trended online, as haters tried to piggyback on protest movement posts to pursue their own...
Silly boycotts: Si es un boicot, tiene que ser tonta
In the United States, in the past week, there was a call to BOYCOTT GOYA after the head of the family-run, privately held food company praised U.S. President Donald J. Trump after a White House...
JewliciousReads: In The Shul Where It Happened and Other June Beach Reads 2020
A selection of Summer reads for the Northern Hemisphere (and Winter Reads for the Southern) BIG SUMMER A Novel by JENNIFER WEINER Pub Date: MAY 5, 2020 Publisher: Atria Books Some reviewers said this...
Juneteenth: It isn’t Passover or Heschel Day
Some of my friends are a funny lot. If you mention Juneteenth and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, they mention how Rabbi Dr. Abraham Joshua Heschel marched with King, or how so many civil...
TJS S3E31 Six Day War part V – something miraculous
What do you see as the greatest miracles in Jewish History? In many ways, how you answer indicates your understanding of history altogether. This episode deals with the first three days of the war...