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...
Brandeis Selects Jewish Cisgender Male as New Prez
Breaking News: Waltham, Massachusetts. Brandeis University has selected a new President who will officially begin the new role in Summer 2016. Ronald D. Liebowitz will become the university’s...
“The Goldbergs” Finally Celebrate Hanukkah (Or, Isn’t it About Time We had Realistic Portrayals of...
– – Finally an American television show had the guts to be realistic about the Jewish experience in America. This happened on the most recently aired episode of the ABC sitcom “The...
Spend The Seventh Night Of Hanukkah With Justin Theroux
Stephen Colbert’s Hanukkah celebrity guest for night 7 of Hanukkah is Justin Theroux, star of HBO’s The Leftovers. As such, he expressed much concern for your leftover latkes. Yeah. Not...
Samantha Bee’s Dramatic Tribute To The Sixth Night Of Hanukkah
Samantha Bee is Stephen Colbert’s celebrity 6th night of Hanukkah guest. Bee, who is Canadian, performed a couple of monologues from her upcoming play “The Rabbi’s Daughter.”...