In the words of our Tony Award winning Broadway equity actor and Platt Family Singers friend, Ben Platt, “The things that make you strange are the things that make you powerful.” The...
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Did Bris Joke Get Penn Admissions Rep Fired?
The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper of The University of Pennsylvania and the Chronicle of Higher Education have reported that a regional admissions counselor was removed from her position...
Bits and Pieces of Jewliciousness
The Israeli government’s hoped for move to the center is dashed by a failure to agree on a universal draft law that would apply to Ultra Orthodox Jews and Israeli Arabs. So Kadima broke up with...
If You’re Going To San Francisco… Arrive Circumcised
Apparently you can leave your heart in San Francisco, but your foreskin is going home with you. — Lewis Black Will voters in SF have a choice on the ballot put forth by “intactivists”...
Mighty Morphin Israeli Ranger and Other News
Avigdor Arikha, an internationally renowned Israeli and French painter died at his home in Paris on last Thursday, the day after his 81st birthday. A Holocaust survivor, his works were a continuous...
Hungarians are Just Ridiculous. Oh and Mazel Tov.
As you may already know, Bruno and Brigitta Bitter of Budapest had a boy last week. The ROI alums and the dude behind Hungarian Jew blog Judapest have always been, shall we say, entertaining. But now...
13 Year Old Wants Bris, Supreme Court Says “Keep The Foreskin”?
An interesting case below. Once a boy reaches 13 – his father has no more obligations over his religious observance. If a boy is 13 and wants a bris, then he can get one – without his...
Jewberry
I guess that this has been around for a while, but I don’t think that we covered it. So if we did, please do not send the wrath of been there before or this is so not news on me…ok? Now...