I’m a be there! So yeah, I’m off to New York and then LA to help the gang get ready for the Jewlicious Festival. But the excitement will begin almost as soon as I land as the plan is to...
Hummus War Heats Up: Lebanese Record Smashed by Abu Gosh
Where is Benji? Last Friday, 50 chefs from the Arab Israeli village of Abu Gosh got together to smash the hummus record recently set by the Lebanese. Using a 20 foot satellite dish, they made a plate...
In Blogo Veritas
Saw the news over at Kelsey’s, but I think it is also worth mentioning on here that Failed Messiah was portrayed by the NYT yesterday. This is, without a doubt, a major acknowledgement of...
My Yiddishe Mama
I’ve been known to give Ashkenazic Jews a hard time on occasion, from the collection of jokes my family used to tell around the table, to poking fun at abominations such as Geffilte Fish...
Are Israelis more tolerant of Islam than the Swiss?
That’s at least what a new survey suggests. Only 28 percent of respondents said they would support legislation banning the construction of minarets on Mosques built in Israel, according to the...
Happy National Hebrew Day
From The World: A hundred-twenty years ago a scholar named Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, took a dead language and started adding words. Modern Hebrew is still a work in progress. The Academy of the Hebrew...
Marcus Freed Website Hacked By Graphically Challenged Iranian Hacks
Marcus Freed’s Website Hacked : My website has been hacked by an incompetent pro-Iranian Anti Semite! – although he has only hacked two pages on the *old* website that is badly due for a...
Telling a Book By Its Cover 2009
Happy New Year. Here at MyJewishBooks.com it is out with the old and in with the new, and time to look at some of the best Jewish book covers of 2009 before they get pulped (just kidding). Of course...
INTRODUCING THE FIRST EVER ISRAELI KEFFIYEH!
Had to share this with our Jewlicious peeps! So, here goes! Shemspeed is ecstatic to introduce the first ever…“Israeli Keffiyeh”. Pick one up and get Diwon’s Sabra Sessions...
Night of Unity
On Wednesday, January 20, at 6:30pm, we will celebrate Jewish unity with music, comedy, and poetry at an unforgettable, delicious, cabaret-style event at LA’s famous El Rey Theater. This Night...