Casey Neistat is Jewish. So is his wife. So is his daughter. But first, some background. Folks who work for the Jewish community are always interested in identifying influential Jews –...
NewsBits: Keeping Calm, Observing Dana, Spanking Max, Drinking Sangrias, Satmar Swimming, and More
The UK Guardian starts off the morning with a story on Jewish households in the United Kingdom, titled, One in four married or cohabiting UK Jews has non-Jewish partner. Intermarried Jews three times...
Rabbi Rules Fast Day Counts As Diet
“Do you think the ninth of Av and the Day of Atonement, which are 25-hour fasts, can count more somehow?” Greenwich, CT, July 6 – A Jewish spiritual authority has weighed in on the...
JewliciousReads: My Summer Reading List
Guess what? I never read all of “Night” or “Dawn.” It is about time I did. NIGHT by Elie Wiesel 2006 paperback Edition Hill and Wang In 1960, Hill & Wang gave lie Wiesel...
We Pray For The Victims Of The Istanbul Terrorist Attack
(I was all set to write something much lighter than this, but then I saw the news last night about the terrorist attack at the airport in Istanbul.) I heard the first reports about the terrorist...
Netanyahu Pretty Sure He Was Supposed To Get Primae Noctis
Jerusalem, June 29 – Seven years into his current tenure as prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu is still searching through Israel’s legal code to find a provision that mandates his right...
Jerry Lewis’ 1972 Holocaust Clown Film Sneaks Onto YouTube
In 1972, Jerry Lewis wrote, directed, starred in and produced a Holocaust film about a circus clown in a death camp. Titled “The Day the Clown Cried,” it was never released, screened, or...
Shul Members March on DC Gay Bar and Other Jewish Related Responses to Orlando
It happened less than a week after the terror attack in Tel Aviv. The Orlando attack began at 2 AM, as many Jews participated in Tikkun Leil Shavuot study programs across North America. The murderous...
The Day Lil Dicky Dodged a Bullet
“Molly” is Jewish rapper and aspiring model Lil Dicky’s latest video. It’s actually pretty clever – at first you think Dicky’s about to get married, but once the...
ISIS Pride and Omar Mateen
My dear friend Pierre recently wrote about Omar Mateen “The Orlando killer Was a closet gay and had a problem with alcohol. That bring[s] the brotherhood of Islamic fundamentalists into a new...