Join The Pre-Trip Mailing List Yo! It’s that time of the year again. Time to start thinking about going on a free Birthright Israel Trip next winter. If you are between 18-26, Jewish and have...
Jews back in Ukraine
I bet you’ve been wondering where I was. Well, I’ll give you a hint. No. Not with Amy Winehouse.  I was at a Russian Jew wedding. Eight hours away. So, I’ve been all...
He Mocks Us
But we love him all the same. Here’s the new work from EV, in Gawker. In this one, some chimps represent people doing stuff that he thinks satires something relevant. You can figure out the...
Rabbi Yonah Bookstein is our Hero
Hi. I don’t want to be a nudnik. We’ve already written a number of posts about the UJC’s Jewish Community Heroes project. Thanks to your support, our initial nominee, Rabbi Yonah...
Why Not Uganda?
Huckabee, noting that the right to a homeland doesn’t entail a right to the homeLAND that you want, suggested that maybe the palestineans would do better to have a homeland, ummmn, somewhere...
Ever Feel Like a Red Herring?
Red herring, of course, being the fallacy of throwing in unrelated information to defend a claim. Recently, in defending his country’s banking secrecy policies, Prince Hans-Adam II of...
White Flags and Gaza
Nothing’s ever that black and white.
PUNKLEZMERAP
Yeah. Sorry y’all. I’ve been listening to this track by Shemspeed artist Eprhyme so much that I totally neglected to post it. I suck. But do let me know what you think of the vid! You...
South Africa, the Beloved Country
Democracies are known for supporting freedoms and opposing tyrannies. This, I believe, is noble. This ought to occur across the spectrum. A democratic nation which calls out every nation which...
J-Steet: Bridging Divides, Helping Friends
Another Kumbaya Moment I could not help but gush at the recent news that showed how effectively J-Street, the peace loving, pro-Israel alternative to AIPAC, has managed to bridge gaps between Arabs...