Tonight we begin the celebrations of Israel’s 69th Independence Day called Yom Haatzmaut in Hebrew. Eight PM also marks the end of Israel’s Memorial Day for its fallen soldiers. On this day Israelis...
Chinese Worship Ivanka Trump. Uh oh.
The Far East has always been synonymous with “exotic” – and by “exotic,” at least for the purposes of this post, I mean “weird.” What else can one make of...
Jewish Pirate Movie Premiering Next Week at LA Jewish Film Festival
“Ahoy matey!” or “Oy matey!”? A new short film featuring Jewish pirates will be making its world premiere next week. The 10-minute short film, “The Pirate Captain Toledano”...
Would It Be OK If I Used Aid Money To Line My Pockets Instead Of Paying Murderers?
By Mahmoud Abbas Western governments appear to be cracking down on how we Palestinians use the funds they provide for us to run our little fiefdom, including an unprecedented insistence that we not...
YouTube Says: Holocaust Remembrance Day Videos Violate Community Guidelines
Today, on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day, YouTube saw fit to send me an email to let me know that they were pulling monetization from a bunch of my YouTube videos because they may not be...
It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day again
It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day again. It’s getting harder and harder to feel a true sense of mourning, though. Maybe it’s because so much time has now passed – more than 70 years – since the...
Memo to the Jewish Media: Billionaire Evan Spiegel is NOT Jewish
Us Jews love it when a member of the tribe makes it big. It’s as if their success rubs off on all the rest of us and offers a form of validation to a historically much maligned people. Everyone...
Outrage As Bibi Blames ‘Aging’ For Dwindling Number Of Holocaust Survivors
“Holocaust survivors are a national resource for us as politicians seeking to score moral or rhetorical points, and it’s downright irresponsible to allow them to die like that.” Tel...
JewliciousReads: Three Cookbooks for Pesach #3
MATZO 35 Recipes for Passover and All Year Long by Michele Streit Heilbrun with David Kirschner Pub Date: March 2017 Clarkson Potter (Penguin Random House) Why 35 recipes and not 36? You’ll...
JewliciousReads: Three Cookbooks for Pesach #2
Another new cookbook is the first from NYC’s Aussie Gourmet. Perfect for Pesach: Passover recipes you’ll want to make all year by Naomi Nachman with Miriam Pascal Mesorah Publications Pub...