Back at U. Madison’s Conney Conference while doing the Cool Jew thang, I met classically trained dancer Adam McKinney, an African American, Native American, Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jew. Reared...
And Remember: Mermaids Are Treif!
Just when I thought I’d heard / seen it all, Israel kicks me with a Kishonesque boot: Locals and tourists in the Israeli town of Kiryat Yam have been flocking to the coast in hopes of glimpsing...
As One Weinstein wrote, another played
This week in New York City, a funny play by a Weinstein about sex and holy land will open (as mentioned below) at the Fringe Fest. But while the play’s author was busy writing and editing a...
Nachas with Those Nachos
When I read the New York Times weddings announcement for Dr. Sarah Sternklar amd Marvin Davis in 1996, I had no inkling that they would produce such a mensch. Sternklar, a psychoanalyst...
Israel is Sex
New York International Fringe Festival Comedy Sex and the Holy Land One cannot ignore the correlation between sex and Israel that exists in the hearts and loins of the tens of thousands of parentally...
Health Care is a Jewish Issue
In the intense and heated debate over health care I found this story compelling and instructive. A group that provides health care for rural, impoverished parts of the world, has come to LA and is...
umm…. what?
Hamas has reported that they are willing to deal “positively” with Obama’s Middle East Peace Plan “but only in exchange for a long-term truce.” So let’s break this...
Israeli Soldier May have been Kidnapped Today
Traffic all across Israel has ground to a snarl as police are checking cars looking for an IDF soldier that may have been kidnapped today at noon. Stay tuned as we’ll try to update you with the...
Vote Daily
Rabbi Yonah Is Our Hero! Those of us from Jewlicious who have attended the Jewlicious festivals over the past five years know what a success they are in terms of reaching out and captivating hundreds...
Pride of the Nation
The following film has been making the rounds of the internet — it is apparently the film ‘within the film’ of Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglourious Basterds’...