Taylor, a Buzzfeed employee who is Jewish, stars in another video about Jews. This time she white-girl-raps her song of the alienation felt by a Jew at a Christmas party. While I don’t believe...
If you see something, say something
Guest post by Samantha (Sam) Levinson When my Rabbi first told me about Kitty Genovese, it was my Sophomore year of High School. After that he would often invoke the story of her murder while...
Why Star Trek is More Jewish than Star Wars (Just in Time for Christmas)
– – So I went to see the new Star Wars movie this week and something hit me about the difference between the world of Star Wars and the one of Star Trek: Star Trek is more Jewish. The...
Jews Debate Jewish Christmas vs. Christmas (vs. MatzoBall)
The Jewish debaters in this clip are surprisingly passionate about their positions. Some Jews clearly suffer from Christmas envy and that’s sad. It’s sad because it’s not even envy...
What Jewish Charities Can Learn from Harvard Biz School
December is the month in which my mailbox gets a lot of letters appealing for shekels. When I was a teen, I sent some dollars to American Friends of Magen David Adom. For the next few years, the...
Leading Change in Lod
As the son of a Conservative rabbi, Daniel Hammerman, 22, grew up surrounded by all things Judaism and Israel. “I felt very connected at a young age,” the Stamford, Connecticut native...
Israelis To Open Campus in China – Will Serve Chinese Not Only On Erev Xmas
Some dream of Chinese on Christmas Eve and Ask “Why?” Others dream of an entire Chinese school and ask, “Why not?” Last week, over 5,000 people attended the groundbreaking in...
Fariq Awwal Tso Chicken Comes to Gaza in Time for Xmas Eve
Sorry Oberlin University students and Kung Pao Kosher Comedy customers. General Tso Chicken (or Admiral Tso if you are at Annapolis) has a new cousin. According to a Xinhua Chinese news service story...
Moishe Gets a New Window – An East Village Kosher Bakery Gets a Gift
In Manhattan, one of the few remaining kosher bake shops is Moishe’s in the East Village at 115 Second Avenue. Moishe’s survived poor times and punks, for over four decades, as well as...
Should Trump’s Son-in-Law Become Muslim?
Steeped in the methods of Saul Alinsky’s Reveille for Radicals, Glenn Richter’s Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ), and USY’s boycott of California table grapes, I have for...