I’ll never forget the time I heard a Rabbi spend 15 minutes of his speech putting down Eddie Vedder. I was sitting right behind him right at the front of the Beis Midrash (study hall) facing the...
Black Jesus is Risen!
Last week saw the premiere of Adult Swim’s new comedy series Black Jesus. Created by Aaron McGruder (Boondocks) Jesus here is portrayed as living in present-day Compton, California, “on a...
Hamas Beat Israel in Gaza?
Ronen Bergman, a senior political and military analyst for Yediot Aharonot, recently penned an op. ed. for the New York Times titled How Hamas Beat Israel in Gaza. In it, he makes some assertions in...
Amal and the Night Inquisitors
Apologies to Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera title. Gabon ambassador Baudelaire Ndong Ella, the president of the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council, announced that the British-Lebanese lawyer and...
David’s Will Sit Shiva as Blank’s Shoot Pollard
The New York Times (and Roger Friedman’s Showbiz 411) report(s) that Seinfeld co-creator Larry David will debut on Broadway in March 2015 with a play about sitting shiva. I swear there was...
Love and Semen In A Time of War
NEWS FROM OPERATION PROTECTIVE EDGE Earlier this year, it was reported that Haifa’s Rambam Hospital’s fertility clinic was in crisis. Supplies of sperm samples were low –...
Open Letter to Naomi Wolf
[Guest Post from Zaq Harrison] I clearly have a different world view than you do, but that is okay, part of the tapestry of life is being challenged by others. I have accepted your challenge to open...
Jewish Gaza Protest Gets Pop Up Treatment
On Friday August 1st, a Jewish group called If Not Now organized a Kabbalat Shabbat/Mourner’s Kaddish in Washington Square Park in New York City. They gathered to …stand together against...
UK Tricycle Theatre Ditches UK Jewish Film Fest
In my opinion, London’s Tricycle Theatre appears to be one wheel short of stable thinking. The theatre has been the hosting location of the UK Jewish Film Festival for the past eight years, and...
Please Don’t Watch The Honourable Woman
– Please do not let yourself be fooled into wasting any of the precious few minutes of life that we have in this world watching the new British miniseries The Honourable Woman. This is not a...