Yeah, yeah. Happy Birthday Gilad. I signed up for this thing on twitter called #Tweet4Shalit and I’ll be honest? I was hoping NOT to have to tweet for his release. It’s like I’d...
Date Profile: The American Self-Hating Jew
Oh Jdate – you’ve failed me in so many ways… As you may know, I am often frustrated by stereotypes… but I can’t help but note that I’ve met my first stereotypical...
Hospitality: What my Dad Taught Me (and a fab contest!)
Everything I know about hospitality I learned from my Dad. We always had big holiday dinners. Actually, we still have big holiday dinners… and they’re great! Mom puts out a spread that...
Heineken Music Conference: Indie Artists in Israel
Featuring: MGMT, Faith No More, Dinosaur Jr. James Murphy & Pat Mahoney from LCD Soundsystem, The Dallas Guild and The Monotonix From the press release: For the first time ever, Israel will host...
Who Doesn’t Love This Ridiculous Analogy?
Avigdor Lieberman goes all the way to crazy and then added a few kilometers some with this beauty: It’s a shame that the Swedish Foreign Ministry fails to intervene in a case of blood libels...
Meet Washington’s gay-friendly Orthodox rabbi
By Jamie Kirchick Published in Tablet Magazine When Zvi Bellin, a gay Washingtonian, heard that a vigil was being organized by members of the gay and Jewish communities in the Capitol to memorialize...
If Don Draper Were a Jew…
There has been speculation since the dawn of the rise in popularity of the hit show Mad Men, that the show’s resident heart throb and protagonist, Don Draper is in fact Jewish. Since not much...
When Fashion Meets Frumkeit
You know traditional Judaism has entered a new milieu when tzniut ends up on TLC. Mayim Bialik starred in NBC’s “Blossom” from 1990 to 1994. More recently, she appeared on...
Why the Goldstone investigation is tarnished
I guess in a few weeks we’ll write the obligatory “it’s nonsense” post about the Goldstone Commission’s report on the Gaza War for the UN “Human Rights Commission...
Nazis
Hat tip to Charles Ettinson.