The Jewlicious Guide to Visiting the UAE while Israeli Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and some cabinet Ministers have expressed concern about Israeli tourists to the United Arab Emirates possibly...
Toddler Running Across Jerusalem, because Why Not?
This is a video of my Monkey Boy running across Jerusalem to “Police on My Back” by The Clash. Why did we do this? Well, because toddlers running is cute AF. I also wanted to test my DJI...
Introducing Nicole Raviv.
Some of our older but still vibrant readers may remember a time when music was purchased on a circular disc or rectangular piece of plastic at a retail store in exchange for a primitive form of paper...
TJS S4E6 Israel post ’67 part II – The Greater Israel
One can look at life as one long string of decisions, whether for individuals or nations. Israel had a number of decisions to make in the wake of the Six Day War and none was more pressing than where...
TJS S4 Interlude: Interview with Yossi Klein Halevi
This week I host author and thought leader Yossi Klein Halevi. Our conversation touches on his personal experience of Meir Kahane and the early struggle for Soviet Jewry, the challenges of writing...
TJS S4 Interlude: Interview with Dr. Michael Oren
In this interlude I am joined by special guest Dr. Michael Oren. The topic at hand is how the Six Day War helped shaped the special relationship between Israel and the United States. Along the way Dr...
Sell Erev Rosh Hashana, Buy Yom Kippur, Rest Sukkot 2020
There is a Wall Street adage of SELL ROSH HASHANA, BUY YOM KIPPUR to make some dollars on the stock market. If you had done that from 1998 to 2005, on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, (assuming no...
And Why Shouldn’t The White House Do Israel’s Dry...
There was minor snickering this week, during the DAYS OF AWE (DAYS OF CHUTZ-PAW), when THE WASHINGTON POST reported that Israeli Prime minister Netanyahu and his spouse had a habit of bringing...
My Rosh Hashana Playlist 5781
I bought my apples. I bought my honey varieties and Rosh Pandemic greeting cards. And Now is the time for some Rosh Hashana tunes: MOSHE PERETZ and OMER ADAM THE MACCABEATS – Bashana...
TJS S4E3 American Jewry after 1967 part III, Ocean Hill...
There are stories which are turning points in a larger tale, and there are those which prove to be tempests in a tea cup. The story of the 1968 NYC school strike could be read as both. Either way...