The High Holy Days this year coincided with the Eid and with Ganesh’s birthday, and in NYC, it coincided with Fashion Week, the 2010 week in which designers show their Spring-Summer 2011 looks...
Hadara Levin Areddy and G-dcast present Sukkot
That’s the hut holiday The good folks at g-dcast.com have been releasing videos for the high holidays and this video features the inspired choice of Hadara Levin Areddy. In a world full of...
Latma TV and a song for Yom Kippur
Alright, so maybe I don’t quite fully agree with this, but it’s funny as hell. The entire episode is here.
The Blind Character Assassin – Margaret Atwood enters the anti-Israel fray
Well, Yom Kippur is upon us and I had the misfortune of reading an editorial in Ha’aretz written by Margaret Atwood, the great Canadian writer, about one reason Israel and Israeli Jews should...
And Jerusalem falls silent…
This is the latest post from my blog, “Sacred and Insane,” about being a new, secular immigrant and journalist in Jerusalem. Please visit and read all of the previous...
On RH it is Written and on YK it is Streamed Online
On Yom Kippur it is sealed streamed online… Just to let all the readers know, especially those in forward bases in the armed forces, ships at sea, at the science station in Antarctica, in...
Ride For Hunger And The Planet
Registration is open for the 2010 New Moon Century. JConnect is back on two wheels this fall for the most fun kosher-friendly distance ride in Southern California. The route? A beautiful, stunning...
A Tale of Yom Kippur: With Eyes of Love
Yom Kippur had come around again and I was feeling spent, empty, lost. Religion, my own beliefs of reward and punishment, weighed down on me to the point where I didnt know what to believe in anymore...
Leader of the… Pack
What is a Cairo based newspaper editor to do, when the nation’s leader helps to promote peace talks, but doesn’t get what is deemed to be the right place in the official photograph of the...
America’s next top (Jewish role) model? Me thinks not.
I am not and never have been an Orthodox Jew. I’ve also never been a fashion model. So, I’m not here to pass judgment on Esther Petrack. But, I couldn’t help but cringe a little...