Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) was given an aliyah – he was raised up – to crown prince and deputy prime minister. The 31 year old son of Saudi...
Jeff Bezos Needs Your Tzedaka Help – North Korea Releases Birthright Alum and Other Newsbits (and Tonys)
Alexa, Buy Whole Foods and Give me a Philanthropy Strategy Perhaps timed to coincide with Amazon’s announced purchase of Whole Foods, or POTUS Trump’s trip to Miami to discuss Cuba, Jeff...
The Jerusalem International Book Fair 2017
The Jerusalem International Book Fair is being held this week at the First Station compound. The First Station is a new outdoor venue which opened just a few years ago around the refurbished old...
Tel Aviv Man Couldn’t Tell Pride Parade Any Different From Normal Day
Signs that made retroactive sense included disruptions of traffic, which Pitsek said he had not noticed because Tel Aviv is already a traffic nightmare. Tel Aviv, June 14 – A resident of...
JewliciousReads: Who Knew Ink Weighed So Much? 4 Books for Mid-June
It’s Tuesday in America, the day of the week that new books are published. Among the newest are 4 recommended reads. They are SWELL A Novel by Jill Eisenstadt Publisher: Little, Brown...
Why did Bill Maher have to apologize to Ice Cube of all people?
So Bill Maher used the latest chapter of his HBO talk show “Real Time” to make his obligatory mea culpa for using that word. We don’t have to mention it here. We all know what it is. Never mind the...
4 Million Injured In Hand-Wringing Over 50 Years Since 6-Day War
Medical facilities in New York, Berkeley, London, Paris, and other strongholds of anti-Israel feeling in the West have experienced an marked increase in outpatient demand. New York, June 8 –...
Newsbits: Gay PornStar fights BDS; Sears Caves into BDS; South Dakota; Sushi; Rabbi Dweck; and More
Michael Lucas, a porn actor and leader of a porn company, has written an anti-BDS essay for HuffingtonPost readers. In the piece titled “The Hideous Hypocrisy Of BDS And Allegations Of...
CNN Names Ivanka – Not Your Mom – the Most Powerful Jewish Woman
In an article published by CNN at the close of Shavuot last week, Ivanka Trump – the First Daughter of the United State (FDOTUS) – was named (or referred to as) “America’s most powerful...
Westboro Baptist Church Starts Picketing Self; ‘Bunch of Hateful Fags’
“If the influence of those forces is as invidious as Westboro claims, then perforce Westboro is not immune to them.” Topeka, June 2 – In keeping with its tradition of seeing the...