Sitting in a sukkah during the intermediate days of the chag offers a nice time to stock up on new September releases. Some recommendations are: PEOPLE LOVE DEAD JEWS Reports from a Haunted Present...
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JewliciousReads: Some Summer Beach Reads 2021
A few recommended Summer 2021 reads (for those in the Northern Hemisphere) THAT SUMMER A Novel by Jennifer Weiner Part 2 in the Cape Cod Trilogy Publication Date: May 11, 2021 Publisher: Altria Books...
Poland and the Jews: The People2People Project
When one thinks about Jews and Poland the first thing that comes to mind usually isn’t Jazz, or high fashion, or burlesque etc. A new and innovative project called People2People is seeking to...
What’s Up With Israeli Professors and Extraterrestrials?
Jewish people have been known to look to the heavens or at least to the East from whence their strength will come, and in the past few weeks, two Israelis have made earthwide news with their ideas on...
And Why Shouldn’t The White House Do Israel’s Dry Cleaning?
There was minor snickering this week, during the DAYS OF AWE (DAYS OF CHUTZ-PAW), when THE WASHINGTON POST reported that Israeli Prime minister Netanyahu and his spouse had a habit of bringing...
Seth Rogen Loves The Jews
Stoner Logic The usual suspects are all up in arms about some statements made during Mark Maron’s WTF podcast during an interview with comedian Seth Rogen. The podcast was meant to promote...
TJS Live: Heralds of Zion I Rav Alkalai and Rav Kalischer
The first in the ‘Heralds of Zion’ series. After introducing the two essential elements of Zionism, we explore its roots in classical religious thinking and how modernity forced an...
Joe Exotic’s (Tiger King’s) Jewish Brother and 10 Shows to Binge During Quarantine
When I binged “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness” a new 2020 docu-series (or more reality series) on NETFLIX, I hated all the characters and would not have been upset had the lions...