Is this the best way for our future Jewish stories to be told and recorded? The preceding was quoted from a mass fund raising email sent out by the President of the JTA, Elisa Spungen Bildner. As can...
The Murray Hill Song: A Piece of Jewish New York History
The Lower East Side of Manhattan will always be remembered as a place of Jewish beginnings in contemporary American Jewish culture. Escaping from Czarist pogroms, harsh anti-Semitism and stifling...
The “Moderate” P.A.
Sell your land to a Jew and you can get the death penalty. Well, if you live in an area controlled by the P.A., you can. Palestine Authority Chief Islamic Judge Sheikh Tayseer Rajab Tamimi issued a...
On Duisburg 2
Here’s a little update on the case of two policemen taking down an Israeli flag during an anti-war protest rally in Duisburg by breaking into a flat. The Northrhine-Westphalian ministry of the...
Sacha begets Borat begets BRUNO!
I am speechless. I will definitely watch this new Sacha Baron Cohen movie. But I probably won’t bring my Mother along. And yes, that IS Cohen as Bruno being chased by Haredim in Israel!! Also...
Sefira album; Beat Box & Raps 4 Passover
During a time when some Jews refrain from listening to live music – famous Orthodox rapper Y-Love and beatbox superstar Yuri Lane (who has over 6 millions hits on youtube) create all their...
Mame, does this make me look progressive?
To many, Yiddish has got a flavour of shtetl nostalgia to it, but anybody who is friends with native speakers knows that the language is alive and thriving and as colourful as it gets. Between Leo...
Facebook Haggadah
After a slew of musical Matzah shorts on YouTube, a clever viral haggadah is online and making some serious rounds. The Haggadah promotes Yes We Conserve, a Facebook App which may benefit from the...
LA Times Editor Questions Israel’s Right to Exist
. . . At least according to an opinion piece in today’s Jewish Journal by Persian Community leaders, David Peyman and Sam Yebri. He then made a startling observation — that whether Israel...
You Too Can be a Jewish Social Network Consultant!
…in 6 easy steps! Author Liel Leibovitz’s article Communication Breakdown: Dispatches from the Virtual World posits the notion that blogs and twitter are contributing to the...