Actress, musician, Canadian Jessica Lowndes tweeted that #HatersGonnaHate about her #smitten affair with comedian Jon Lovitz. Is it a Purim parody? Is it the start of an April Fools Joke? Or is it...
Will NYC Welcome Israel’s New Consul General Dani Dayan?
“What Trenton Makes The World Takes.” Those are the words on a New Jersey bridge. We can amend it. “What Brazil Rejects, NYC Gets.” This morning, after months of fighting with...
Georgia School Bans Namaste… Will Shalom Be Next?
Ummmmmmm… I mean Ohmmmmmm….. Yoga is supposed to reduce tsurris, not create it. Bullard Elementary in suburban Atlanta has banned the use of the word “namaste” in school. It...
AIPAC at Colonus, or The Blind Boys of Alabama Can’t Fix This
In Sophocles’ play, Oedipus at Colonus, and the later Brooklyn rendition of it as Gospel at Colonus starring the Blind Boys of Alabama, Oedipus is blind and near the end of his life. He comes...
Shiva Watch: Leon, Hilary, Geoffrey, Anita, Andy & Meir
LEON H. CHARNEY passed away this week, before Erev Purim in New York City. He was a behind the scenes “spy for peace” who helped President Jimmy Carter push forward on the Camp David...
Why the Hunger Games Movies Are More Jewish Than The Divergent Series
– – Its about food! Happy Purim everybody!
Manhattan’s NOJFF: Naturally Occurring Jewish Film Fest
Once every 19 years – or so I heard – a Jewish Film Fest naturally occurs in Manhattan. It is a Naturally Occurring JFF, not to be confused with an Aging In Place NORC Retirement...
With a Name Like Merrick, It Has To Be…
Jewish… and perhaps the fourth Jewish justice to sit on the Roberts’ court This morning at The White House, POTUS Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland to the open seat on the U.S...
Newsbits: White House Liaising, Aipac Plotting, Bethlehem Teaching, Rogen Sausaging, Hoffman Rootsing
Mazal Tov to Washington, DC’s most celebrated Norwegian-speaking, Latina, Jewish woman – Raffi Freedman-Gurspan – who was appointed as POTUS Barack Obama’s primary LGBT White...
Italy to Celebrate 500 Years of the Venice Ghetto with Mahler
On March 29th, 2016, Venice will “celebrate” or mark the 500th anniversary since the establishment of the Jewish Ghetto of Venice, where Jews were forced to live and be locked up in 1516...