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...
Note to Yitzhak Herzog: Please Just Shut the Hell Up Already
– – – Dear Yitzhak Herzog, Please just shut up and go away already. In case you haven’t heard the news yet, you lost the elections that were held two months ago – badly. Why is it...
Natalie Portman’s Directorial Debut at Cannes
It’s been wall to wall Natalie Portman this week. After being mostly out of the spotlight after her Oscar for Black Swan in 2011, she is suddenly everywhere. Portman is set to be the latest...
JewliciousReads: Einstein Reviewed, Hitler Returned, and Joan Exhumed
EINSTEIN HIS SPACE AND TIMES BY STEVEN GIMBEL Yale University Press Jewish Lives series Publication Date: April 28, 2015 only 191 pages. Poor Dr. Einstein. His face and wild hair is used as pop...
ShivaWatch: Sudden Tragedies in Chicago, Mexico, and Nepal
In synagogues last week, we read about how Aaron was comforted after the sudden, untimely deaths of his sons. And in the media, we read of an outpouring of comfort to the families who lost sons and...