Our long national nightmare is finally over! After months of having to hear all about the plans for this year’s Eurovision contest which was held in Tel Aviv, it’s safe for Israelis to watch the news...
Shiva Watch: Wouk, Pei, Berkun
HERMAN WOUK (pronounced woke) passed away today at the age of 103 at his home in Palm Springs, California. In ten days he would have turned 104. The cause of his death was not announced. Prior to...
My Ramadan Treat: Binge Watching Ramy on Hulu
An uncomfortable delight is binge watching what some say is the first successful Muslim-American situation comedy series in America: RAMY. Distributed on Hulu.com, the series is loosely based on the...
Sirens Across Israel – Yom Hashoah / Yom Hazikaron and then…
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 the exiles part II
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 Princeton
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 Mrs. Maisel Haggadah
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...