On Wednesday December 23, 2016 Rabbi Reuven Biermacher, was seriously injured in a stabbing by two Palestinian assailants near the Jaffa Gate and later died of his wounds. The death of Biermacher...
Jerusalem Onesie/Pajama Pub Crawl
[slideshow_deploy id=’32826′] Last Thursday night, Improv Israel organized a Onesie/Pajama Pub Crawl. I caught up with them at the Machane Yehuda market where they had just come...
What’s Hot at Sundance 2016
The 2016 Sundance Film Festival started Thursday, and already a film has been purchased… by Amazon. One can say that this is representative of the market for indie films… that Amazon and Netflix and...
The Voracious Sexual Desire of a Jewish Man
Egyptian Sex Therapist Heba Kotb: The Jews Have Had the Highest Rate of Sexual Perversions throughout History. To view this video-clip on the MEMRI TV website, go to: . In a recent Egyptian TV show...
National LGBTQ Task Force protests against Israeli “Pinkwashing”
Recently, the National LGBTQ Task Force organized an unprecedented protest against Israeli “Pinkwashing” and the apartheid country’s despicable abuse of the rights of LGBTQ...
2015 Jewish Book Awards: Too White? Too Jewish?
Last Wednesday, just hours from the Oscar nominees announcements in Los Angeles, the Jewish Book Council announced its finalists and winners of the 2015 National Jewish Book Awards, North America’s...
Oscar Noms Nod Shoah Flicks, Snubs Minyans
Oscar nominations were announced today. And members of The Tribe were on the lists. The 88th Academy Awards ceremony will be broadcast from Los Angeles on February 28, 2016. Most importantly (to...
ShivaWatch: Swados and Kaye – Two Women of Valour
I was so busy last week, that I missed that two heroes passed away. Elizabeth “Liz” Swados (Sway-dose), composer, director, author and one of the most original playwrights passed away at...
Likud Knesset Member Makes Ninet Tayeb Crazy
Miki Zohar is an Israeli Knesset member with the Likud party. He is often seen in parliament sporting his trademark 5 o’clock shadow and despite his contention that you have to be delusional...
Raising the Bar on English Education in Israel
Ask Israeli students what Masa Israel Teaching Fellows are doing in Israel and they’ll tell you that Fellows are there to make learning English fun. Masa Israel Teaching Fellows are tasked with...