The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer Publication Date; August 16, 2016 Publisher: Gallery Books / Simon & Schuster We dropped by the opening reading for comedian/actress/writer Amy...
Jerusalem Moments
Life in Jerusalem can often be defined as a series of disjointed moments, some sacred some profane, some banal and others beautiful. Here are some of my moments, captured this week and shared on...
Jewish Summer Campers Try Neutering Hebrew To Make It Gender Neutral
The campers at Habonim Dror’s Camp Morasha in the woods of Northeast Maryland are a creative bunch. Sleeping halfway between Lancaster and Baltimore, they have issues with the gender suffixes...
JewliciousReels: Jewlicious Films for the Weekend
If you take time out from watching the Rio Olympics or trading and collecting Rio 2016 pins, there are some new films to see this weekend, including: (currently screening in NYC and other major...
Man’s Itinerary To Avoid Panhandlers Foiled By Police Incident
“He’s kicking himself because he knows he could have prevented this situation by better situational awareness.” Jerusalem, August 11 – A resident of Israel’s capital had...
Is WikiLeaks Exploiting the Murder of Jewish DNC Staffer By Offering a $20K Reward?
Wikileaks Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange appears to have suggested in an interview on Dutch TV’s Nieuwsuur that Seth Rich, a staff member of the DNC, was the source of the leak of DNC...
Required Story on Jewish Athletes in Rio #Olympics
The 2016 Olympics have arrived. So many stories on security, unfinished facilities, and Zika fears. Oh, the Greek Gods are so fickle. But let’s focus on the Jewish and Israeli athletes who have...
Philip Roth’s #Indignation Movie Contest
Above is the trailer to “Indignation” a film adaptation of a novel by Philip Roth. The movie is set in 1951, as Marcus Messner (Logan Lerman), a brilliant working class Jewish boy from...
Newsbits: Trump’s Israel Policy Maven, Oberlin’s Misbevin’, Black Lives Matter’s Craven Cave-In...
OBERLIN COLLEGE in Ohio has placed a professor who made some anti-Israel tweets on leave. Oberlin placed Professor Joy Karega on paid leave and announced she will not be permitted to teach on campus...
Dough: A Movie for our times?
The “odd couple” is a tried and true formula when crafting a compelling story. In that vein, “Dough,” through a series of unfortunate events, pairs an old, white, widowed...