Jewrotica has announced the opening of nominations for this year’s sexiest Rabbis. I guess I should say “sexiest” because, despite the site’s nomenclature, this isn’t a...
JewliciousEats: Jewish Soul Food for Shabbat Toldot and Thanksgiving
Jewish Soul Food: From Minsk to Marrakesh, More Than 100 Unforgettable Dishes Updated for Today’s Kitchen by Janna Gur Pub Date: October 28, 2014 Schocken Press Shabbat Toldot and the week...
Dumb&Dumber: UCLA Council Votes for BDS
As the world mourned for those in a Jerusalem synagogue who were butchered and murdered without mercy, UCLA’s undergraduate elected student government voted 8-2-2 to pass a resolution that...
JewliciousReels: Notes from the Jewish Film Fest Circuit
Unfortunately due to poor planning, I did not make it to the Boston Jewish Film Festival this year (its 26th edition), but I did score some tickets to the NYC DOC fest and Manhattan’s OTHER...
JewliciousReels: Above & Beyond at NYC DOCumentary Fest
ABOVE AND BEYOND a documentary about the American, British, South African and other english-speaking WWII pilots who volunteered (with two Israelis) to create the Israeli Air Force in 1948, had its...
Lives Taken in Jerusalem
This morning, innocent, beautiful lives were taken from us. Palestinian terrorists, who freely roam the country, snuck into a synagogue where Jewish men were praying for a better world. Headlines of...
Dershowitz Gets Abraham Off at Temple
Before a jury of 1,300 on Sunday morning at Manhattan’s Temple Emanu-El (none of them patriarchs), Attorney Alan Dershowitz defended Abraham on the charge of attempted murder of the son whom he...
The Founding Fathers of Zionism by Benzion Netanyahu: A Book Review
The Founding Fathers of Zionism, by Benzion Netanyahu, 2012, 230 pages, co published by Balfour House and Gefen Publishing. – Benzion Netanyahu, the father of Israel’s current Prime Minister...
Thoughts on Terror from Jerusalem
Everyday I live side by side with arabs, on the bus, in line, at work, in class… Human beings just like me…a person is a person is a person. A person is not politics, but created in the...
Shame on you Haaretz and Amos Biderman!
– Israeli political cartoonist Amos Biderman has shocked the world with his latest in which he depicts Binyamin Netanyahu as a 9/11 bomber. The cartoon, which appeared in the Israeli Hebrew...