or ever… So says Rabbi Eliyashiv, a litvack rebbe, in response to a question by a yeshiva student. The Rabbi ruled that …it is best not to wear Crocs shoes on Yom Kippur even though they...
The Anti-Hate Declaration – Avoiding Propaganda: An Open Letter to the Toronto Palestinian Film Festival
Hmmm. An Open Letter? The Anti-Hate Declaration: An Open Letter to the Toronto Palestine Film Festival September 25, 2009 Let me state for the record that I am merely expressing my opinions and I do...
Shannah Tova!
It was one year ago, that I became a member of the Jewlicious family, when CK offered me the opportunity to blog. This time of year, I’m thinking of everything that has happened over the past...
Bibi’s UN Speech
24 September 2009, Israeli Prime Minister delivered a stunning speech to the United Nations. His speech could be broken down in four parts: First, he denounced Ahmadinejad as a Holocaust denier and...
Days of Awe
On the first day of Rosh HaShanah, the community known as Beit Midrash Ohr HaChaim in the Bay Area was treated to the following words written by Rabbi Chanan Feld, which his wife, Jody, read to the...
What do you use for Kapporos/Kaparot?
Kapparos or Kaparot (Hebrew: כפרות‎, “atonements”) is an ancient Jewish ritual to save oneself from a harsh Heavenly decree by it being effected on another object. Vegetables...
Al Jazeera reports on Netanyahu’s UN Speech
The way the Arab world views Netanyahu’s speech. It is worth seeing how this speech was reinterpreted for the Arab world. They draw comparisons between Gaza and the Holocaust, and describe the...
Hate Site of the Weak: Westboro Baptist Church
This sick video is up on YouTube, and maybe it should stay there so that people see how repulsive the Westboro Baptist Church really is. Paul, Ringo and Yoko need to sue WBC for every dime they have...
Where should Gaddafi pitch his tent?
[Sidenote: for a COMPLETE list of Middle Eastern hottie/dead leaders, see this link.] I am concerned. Muammar Gaddafi doesn’t have a place to sleep during his stay in the United States, having...
Triumph and Me
There is an funny story about how I came to be in this skit with Triumph, on the Chabad Telethon, and then on Conan. Enough to say that God has a great sense of humor, Robert Smigle is a comic...