And then? Independence Day! Let me backtrack a bit. Every year in Israel after Passover, a siren sounds across the country to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day. When the siren sounds, its tradition...
TJS S3 Yom Ha’atzmaut: Independence or self-actualization?
There is no word for independence in Biblical Hebrew, and the roots of the modern word can teach us much. This might right be called the day when we celebrate ‘self-actualization,’ but...
JewliciousEats: Annual Passover Recipe Roundup 2019
It’s ten days before the Passover seder, so it is time for the annual Jewlicious Passover Recipe roundup, and the week most North American newspaper publish the newest seder recipe trends. We...
TJS S3E4 Sink or Swim – mass immigration and in-gathering...
There are times in the history of peoples and nations when the decisions made shape the future. The three years after Israel’s foundation saw its population double through immigration, the way...
CollegeWeek: Targeting Some Jewish Students at Emory, Brown, and...
Imagine being a student this week at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and having an eviction notice placed on the door of your dorm room because you are Jewish. That’s what happened to some...
Israelis Want to Know: What are American Jews Like?
One of the issues of concern to those in the Jewish world of late, has been the growing divide between Jews in Israel and Jews in America. There are about 6.5 million Jews in Israel and 5.3 million...
Maxwell House Percolates Hipness with Midge’s Marvelous...
Kraft Heinz’s Maxwell House Coffee has created a joint promotion with Amazon Prime Video’s Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, to celebrate the Jewish...
Of “B” Mitzvahs, “Both” Mitzvahs...
Did you catch the Alyson Krueger’s story in Thursday’s New York Times on the growth of B MITZVAHS for non binary, gender fluid, and other gender non-conforming 13 years olds? Also known...
Bibi Love?
Keren Hayesod Street is one of the main arteries of West Jerusalem, connecting tony, residential Emek Refaim with Jerusalem’s downtown core and King George street. Folks wandering up or down...
Three Weddings and a Crucible
In a week when about 18,000 Israel-focused attendees enjoyed lectures, lobbying and lofty speeches at the annual AIPAC confab at Washington DC’s convention center, more than 24 American rabbis...