By Shimon Peres (from Ha’aretz). South African jurist Richard Goldstone lambasted President Shimon Peres on Thursday for a personal attack on him, which the president launched in response to a...
Chumus-larious T-Shirts from Benji Lovitt
If you are anything like me, you hate pretty much all Israeli t-shirt designs that you see at Shuk HaKarmel.  I think the one I hate the most is Don’t worry. Benji Lovitt, from What War...
Rabbi Yonah Bookstein in the Forward 50
The sadness we all felt at the news that Rabbi Yonah had not won the Jewish Community Heroes contest was significantly mitigated today with news that our Hero had been selected as a member of this...
ShivaWatch: Carl Ballantine, the Dean of Comic Magicians
First Soupy, and now Carl. Carl Ballantine, born Meyer Kessler, was the Dean of Comic Magicians, and influenced both comics and magicians, from Steve Martin to David Copperfield, passed away in Los...
The Rabbi In The Corner
On Saturday evening in Las Vegas, as the slots get played and Havdalah ends the Sabbath, a rabbinical student, weighing in at about 154 pounds, hailing from the Belarus by way of Haifa, will get his...
Rabbi Yonah The Hero Finalist
Jewlicious Festival founder, Rabbi Yonah (2nd from right), with some other Jewish Community Heroes of the Year and the Project Leader at the GA 2009 in Washington DC. The project expected 100,000...
And we can be heroes… just for one day
Congratulations to Ari Teman and JCorps for winning the UJC Heroes contest! Rabbi Yonah, the top vote getter, got nearly 20% of all the votes and the Jewlicious community kicked ass and took no...
Netanyahu Calls on Abbas to Restart Peace Talks
The Israeli governemnt launched a full court press for blurb control today before meeting with President Obama in Washington DC. Ehud Barak, in DC for the GA2009, said that Israel is doing all it can...
Greetings from the GA2009. Wish You Were Here
The General Assembly 2009 conference kicked off in Washington DC on Sunday with an estimated 3,000 conferees, mostly made up of representatives from 157 North American Jewish federations and 400...
Joshua Venture Group Has $ Waiting For U
Have an idea? Sure you do. Maybe a blog? A Jewish educational project, maybe an outreach prgram in breast cancer awareness at the Hillel level? OKay, wait those were done already. But maybe you have...