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...
Partisan Chant Mars an Otherwise Lovely White House Hanukkah Party
The Trump White House hosted an annual Hanukkah Party this afternoon at 4PM. Opening with a performace of OD YAVO SHALOM (Salaam) ALEINU. PEACE WILL COME TO US and three other songs by the Y-STUDS, a...
Hannukian Rhapsody and Other Chanukah Songs: Roundup 2018
A roundup of fun posted songs for the Festival of Lights 2018: First off is six13 with their Chanukah tribute to Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen. As they wrote, “Is this just fantasy? No, it’s...
Shiva Watch: Randolph, Ricky, Roszak & Bernie
Sister Cecylia Maria Roszak, perhaps the living oldest nun in the world passed away at 110. her death was made public by @ArchKrakowska, the Archidiecezja of Krakow, Poland. She was the recipient of...
Jared Calls On Avi, Pence Calls On Lena… To Mixed Success
It is sick to politicize a tragedy, but this is life, and it is expected, especially days before an election that will be highly watched and contested. As reported here on Saturday evening, after the...
Tricks – Treats: Schumer’s Chobani Treat, China’s Haifa Trick, SolidarityShabbat, CT’s tricky...
A reporter from Roll Call went to a variety of Senate offices on Capitol Hill, trick or treat bag in hand. The U.S. Senate is not in session, but that doesn’t mean their treats are not...