Actually, the world doesn’t care. I had to hear about it from Kelsey who heard about it from The Forward which heard about it from the JTA which actually unearthed this story. I guess the JTA...
Sweet n’ Sexy
Nine cool Jews and Jewish businesses have donated $175 worth of gifts in celebration of “Tu B’Av,” a day on the Jewish calendar for sweethearts. In ancient times, Tu B’Av was...
Interview with Author of Shush! Growing Up Jewish under Stalin
Some time ago, I read Shush! Growing Up Jewish Under Stalin by Emil Draitser and reviewed it my website (because it’s clear I save Jewlicious writing for more serious endeavors such as...
Muffti and the Judapest Man
Muffti is in beautiful Budapest and stopped by Apuchka to have a drink with ROI alum Bruno Bitter of Judapest, who is the new father of a gorgeous baby boy (Benjamin Arion). He couldn’t stay...
Ghost of Rachel Corrie haunts the SF Jewish Film Festival
The Jewish Film Festival has for years been a source of pride for my mom. She enjoys the great films they screen, buying a pass most of the last 20 years. My mom saves each program guide for me to...
Oy Oy Oy!
First the New York Times, then the Jerusalem Post and now also the Forward: the Jewish roots of punk – or “punk rock’s secret semitic history,” as one paper wrote –...
on having the last word
It happened at a congregational meeting of a conservative shul in Northeast Philly. I had recently become a Bat Mitzvah and my parents felt I was ready for the drama that can ensue at meetings like...
Hot Russians invade the Knesset (no, it’s not me this time.)
Every time I am in a majority-Jewish setting, such as in a synagogue, an Israel event, or TJ MaXX when they are having their 50% off sale, I get the feeling that other people don’t think that...
World up in arms over racist Jordanian revocation of Palestinian citizenship
Actually, they aren’t. Very little reporting about it. Nobody calling anybody in the Jordanian government racist. No Leftists comparing Jordanians to Nazis. One big silence. In the meantime...
LoveFest in LA, Celebrating Jews, Love & Music, Aug. 5, 8PM
Tu B’Av is an ancient day of Jewish romance and celebrating the love in our lives on the 15th day of the Jewish month of Av. It’s older than St. Valentine’s Day and Sadie Hawkins...