On Saturday, Febrary 28, 2015, the twitter-sphere was aflame with people denouncing Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. Some posts got downright personal and called him nasty names, including a “self...
Banksy Expands into Anti Israel Films
Banksy, the nom de guerre for a UK based satirical graffiti artist, is famous for his postings and stencils on walls and buildings. Most of them are quickly stolen and sold for tens or hundreds of...
Brisket Bootcamp, Brooklyn Bris’s, Jewish LEGOs, a possible GOP Jewish Suicide, and Other Newsbits
The Washington Post’s Smoke Signals column shared the story of Brisket Bootcamp at Texas A&M in College Station. The third annual event which SOLD OUT in five minutes featured Jeff Savell...
ShivaWatch: Leonard Nimoy – Jewish Actor, Artist, Creator
Leonard (Leyb) Simon Nimoy – a beloved actor who hailed from a Yiddish speaking household in Boston – succumbed to heart, pulmonary and lung illnesses in Los Angeles at the age of 83...
Vanity
Vanity is not one of the seven Noahide laws. It’s not even one of the seven deadly sins – sort of. Vanity is considered a subset of pride. But when Dutch painter Hieronymous Bosch...
Win Tickets to Moshav’s NYC Show at the Highline Ballroom
Moshav will be headed back to NYC to perform at the Highline Ballroom with Soulfarm and Niv Kaikov on March 12th. Congrats to Nava Wilk who won two tickets to our upcoming NYC show!! There are...
Newbits: Will Chief Rabbi Validate Parking But Not Conversions; Vogue’s Trump Shabbat, and a Jew-nicorn
A Member of the Knesset, Elazar Stern, who identifies as an observant Orthodox Israeli Jew and is a member of the Yesh Atid party, called on Israel’s Sephardic chief rabbi – Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef...
50 Shades of Snow Day Jerusalem 2015
Jerusalemites woke up this morning to over 10 inches of snow that fell overnight in the capital. Roads closed, busses stopped running and the shrieks of children playing in Gan Sachar woke me up...
Latest ISIS Beheading Video: Bloopers Reel!
There’s nothing funny about terrorism! Seriously, who puts out this stuff? OK. I laughed. Sue me.
NYC Kosher Cart War Fueled by Competition, not Jew Hatred
The front page New York Post photo by Pulitzer prize nominated photographer Helayne Seidman, says it all. On the right you see little Yisroel Mordowitz, head dwarfed by his big fur hat, being faced...