Oh Waltham For decades, most American Jews have thought of Brandeis University as the historically Jewish university outside of Boston, the place to which the Jewish teens who were regional USY...
Obama Set to nominate Elena Kagan as next Supreme Court Justice
…and Mike Myers coming this summer as voice of Shrek The Huffington Post has reported that Solicitor General and former Harvard Law Dean Elena Kagan is set to be nominated to the Supreme Court...
Obama’s Charm Offensive, First Female Orthodox Rabbi Speaks Out, And Comedians on Jim Jones
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Hapoel Jerusalem Cheerleaders in Kerfuffle
Orthodox and Feminists Join Together See, it’s like this. Israel’s top basketball league decided that cheerleaders would be mandatory for every team. While teams like Maccabi Tel Aviv...
Give That Get (Punk Style)
Shemspeed staff, Yishai Varon-Mizrahi stars in The Groggers, “Get” music video. …well, ‘stars’ is probably not the best term since he is the one who doesn’t want...
Mighty Morphin Israeli Ranger and Other News
Avigdor Arikha, an internationally renowned Israeli and French painter died at his home in Paris on last Thursday, the day after his 81st birthday. A Holocaust survivor, his works were a continuous...
Spanish-Galician Clown Ivan Prado Denied Entry to Israel
No Clowns in Ramallah! Haaretz and the JTA reported that Spanish clown Ivan Prado had been deported from Israel late last month. He was planning on organizing a clown festival in Ramallah, but...
R.I.P. Max Palevsky
Computer technology pioneer and venture capitalist Max Palevsky, perhaps best-known for funding then-startup chipmaker Intel Corp., has died. He was 85. Read more at the San Francisco Chronicle
El-Israel-The Taglit 10th Anniversary Project
Let’s Meet! As part of its 10th Anniversary, Taglit Birthright Israel is undertaking an unprecedented project aimed at introducing Taglit participants to a broader swath of Israeli society...
Not your typical Jewish boy
When Jason Paul recently graduated from college with a bachelor’s degree in communication, he says he attempted to pursue what he calls a more “convential” writing job —...