Just days after being named by JTA to be among the top fifty people to follow on the Jewish Twittersphere, (((Jonathan Weisman))), the deputy Washington editor of The New York Times has written an...
NYC Rabbis Aquiesce – Female Comedian Could Perform at Kosher Restaurant
Last month, Jewlicious shared the story of NYC Orthodox Jewish comedian, Leah Forster. Her show was cancelled at a kosher restaurant after the restaurant owner had his kashrut certification...
Jewish Squirrel Eats Chinese for Xmas, too.
There are those who joke that Jewish people eat Chinese (cuisine) for Christmas. But in New York City, many others do, including squirrels. Truth be told, I ate at three separate Asian cuisine...
Made in 1948 – Three historic decisions that shaped the birth of modern-day Israel
Declaring a state is a matter of moments, but birthing it can be a much more prolonged process. The last episode in season two is a look at a series of decisions taken by Ben Gurion in the months...
Top Israeli Songs of 2018
It wasn’t all Netta Barzilai and TOY According to statistics compiled by SPOTIFY in ISRAEL, the most listened to or at least requested on Spotify songs in Israel in 2018 included: Halev Shelach...
Hershey’s Chocolate Brisses – Who’s Circumcising Kisses Before New Years?
It was first noticed in Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh and Philadelphia media sites began to receive complaints from holiday bakers, perhaps since the kisses are made in Hershey, PA. The iconic tips of...
Pre-Independence 1948 – The Battle for the Roads and the birth of the War of Narratives
1948 was a year of Biblical proportions, which means the stories told about what happened often have more power than the events themselves. This is part one of a two-part treatment of this momentous...
Second Oldest pre-Inquisition Torah Scroll (and more) To be Sold in NYC
DECEMBER! Time for Sotheby’s annual sale of Israeli and International Art and Judaica. For 2018, it will be held on December 18 and 19 in Manhattan. While few of us have the disposable income or...
Lords (Vaad) of Flatbush Bully Orthodox Female Comedian, Albany Lawmakers Menace Felder, And Other Newsbits
Leah Forester, a popular, up and coming Orthodox Jewish stand-up comedian booked performances at a kosher restaurant in New York City: the Garden of Eat-In. Sadly, according to Forester and the...
Human Dreidel Spreads Love to NYC Subways, Rock Ctr, and City
If you were down and enraged after reading The New York Times Op-Ed maligning Hanukkah (by novelist Michael David Lukas, titled The Hypocrisy of Hanukkah), then you will be uplifted by the NYC HUMAN...