Our Save Passover initiative has already raised $485.67 from 19 generous donors! Today, along with the 33 NIS boxes of Matza (5 packs to a box!) I also bought some modest 30 NIS bottles of wine. The...
The Curious Rabbi Funnye
As told by Zeev Chafets in the NY Times. Chafets loves digging in the fertile area of Jewish unease. He wrote about Jews and evangelicals A Match Made in Heaven: American Jews, Christian Zionists...
They Tried To Kill Us, We Survived. Let’s Eat!
What is Passover prep without this new video of a Passover classic by Good For The Jews? Apparently, I have it on good authority, that if you merely watch this video, you don’t have to go to...
Darshan does “Chad Gadya”
Darshan (Shir Yaakov & Eprhyme) perform “Chad Gadya” at the Downtown Seder, which went down last night at the City Winery with performances by Pharaoh’s Daughter, DeLeon, Gary...
Abbas’ Demands
During a speech in Baghdad, “Palestinian” President Mahmoud Abbas (a.k.a. Abu Mazen) stated that in order for negotiations to continue between his government and Israel, Israel’s...
Is your Rabbi Hot or Not: America’s 50 Top Rabbis Ranked on Newsweek
It’s that time of year again! Lisa Miller of Newsweek explains in Is Your Rabbi Hot Or Not?: Once is lucky. twice is nice. three times—well, anyone can tell you that’s a tradition. It...
Save Passover Update
Thanks to all of you who have made kind donations to our Save Passover campaign, I spent the morning giving out 27 big boxes of Matza to 7 different households. Each box costs about $8.50 so that...
I’m singing in Bahrain, just singing in Bahrain!
Bahrain’s ambassador to the United States, Houda Ezra Ebrahim Nonoo is Jewish, several Jewish Bahraini business leaders have been appointed to the Shura Council (an upper house of...
JTA President Elisa Spungen Bildner Responds
I already wrote a post about the JTA’s fund raising letter, sent last Friday, that offended so many Jewish bloggers. Elisa Spungen Bildner, President of the JTA responded, stating that “A...
This is what happens when CK leaves too early
… and Kelsey and me behind in NYC without any supervision … As Kelsey was recounting the development of various J-blogs to me, we both came to the realization that, with joined forces, we...