Producers at Ostrava Czech Television saw docu-reality shows like the one where a family lived like they were in post-colonial period Maine in 1852, or Schwarzwaldhaus 1902 Wartime Farm, and came...
JewliciousReels: Son of Saul Crowned King at Cannes
The buzz at Cannes this week is about SON OF SAUL, a dark Hungarian film set at Auschwitz-Birkenau, that critics say is unlike any other Holocaust themed film in its approach to the subject. It has...
I dairy you!
CK laughed about that one, so… There’s been some fuss on the internets about two-ingredient ice cream that doesn’t require an ice cream maker. The concept sounded too good to be...
Jewish Stud Gets Millions
Justin Zayat, the Racing & Stallion Manager at Zayat Stables said this week that his family’s thoroughbred racing operation would be accepting an offer from Coolmore’s Ashford Stud...
Goodbye David Letterman: We Love You and We Will Miss You
This story first appeared in Jewish Business news. Re-posted with permission. – – Goodbye David Letterman. We love you and we will miss you. The brilliant, original, hysterical and...
JewliciousReads: Baby Survivors. Where Are They Now?
Born Survivors Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope by Wendy Holden US Publisher: Harper Publication Date: May 5, 2015 Sind Sie schwanger, fesche Frau?’...
Man Shot On Shabbat Over a Non Kosher Beer
DATELINE HAMILTON MONTANA, 47 miles South of Missoula: Monte Leon Hanson, 59, (pictured below) was arrested in Montana and charged with “attempted deliberate homicide” after he shot his...
Kavala Mayor – Not as Sweet as Bakavala – Relents on Jewish Star
Dateline Kavala in Northern Greece. On Sunday, May 17, the city was to unveil a monument to honor the 1,484 Greek Jews who were deported from the town by the Nazis. It was to coincide with a...
I’m Not Rapaport, I’m Frau Doktor Rapaport
Mazal Tov to Professor Ingeborg Syllm Rapoport of Berlin, who finally received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg at the age of 102; just 77 years late. In 1938, Dr. Rapaport submitted her...
Jews, Rock and Roll
Michael Dorf has always been a really big inspiration behind my launching Shemspeed and the Sephardic Music Festival. When I was a DJ at WMUC I would get promo cds of albums he was releasing on his...