Even more Passover recipes have been posted for 2021 (see the earlier posting HERE. ) Jake Cohen’s JEW-ISH cookbook hitting America’s Top 10 Non Fiction list with over 8000 copies sold in...
Foolproof Mufletta Recipe & Muflettapalooza / Mimouna...
Probably while you are working feverishly to prepare your house for Passover, the last thing you’re thinking of is the Chametz Festival that takes place at Jewish Moroccan homes at the end of...
Cobra K – Kosher for Passover Hechshers and 2021 Annual...
As Pesach 2021 approaches, trhe media and internet are filled with new recipes and hechshers to help us elevate our holidays. I have heard a lot of buzz about Cobra K, which I am assuming is a KoP...
TJS S4E13 Yom Kippur War part I: the context for surprise
If we call what happened in the 1967 a war of the spirit, then what occurred seven years later was a struggle of psychology. Here is the first episode leading up to the 1973 Yom Kippur War. It...
Each Day, A New Call For an Apology
Each morning, I awake in anticipation of a new call for an apology Did it start with the uproar of NBC’s Saturday Night Live? The twitter-sphere was filled with calls for NBC to APOLOGIZE for...
Who Said Hamantashen Must Taste Good, and Spuds Have Genders? A...
Oy, what a week. Purim arrives. A crazy Member of Congress from Georgia attacked her neighboring Congressional colleague over her daughter’s gender identity; savory, tasty oil fried Potato...
TJS S4 Interlude: Vengeance, an interview with Thane Rosenbaum
The desire to get even is as old as Cain and Abel, so what new could possibly be said about it? Here is an interview with author Thane Rosenbaum where we explore the nature of vengeance, its...
TJS S4E12 The 1972 Munich Massacre
The whole world watched in horror as the murder of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games raised the bar on international terror to previously inconceivable heights. The events...
Jewish Poles who will Amaze You
A previous post described the People2People project which highlights notable Polish Jews and Jews of Polish heritage, from both the present and the past. I promised that you’d be enthralled...
TJS S4E11 Black September
There is a narrative battle which has been raging for decades between Arab and Jew in the land of Israel, and sometimes it breaks out into open warfare. This is the story of the abortive attempt by...