When reports first came out about the anti-Semitic graffiti attack against B’nai Shalom synagogue of Olney, Maryland last summer, it seemed like your typical attack. Swastikas and Nazi...
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Streaming LIVE: Influencing Israel Webcast
LIVE Programming Begins at Noon Sharp, August 10th (yes – that’s today…) Event Title: INSIDE-OUT: INFLUENCING ISRAEL FROM A GLOBAL JEWISH PERSPECTIVE Have an opinion? Come speak...
INFLUENCING ISRAEL From A Global Jewish Perspective
You are cordially invited to attend… A Leadel Live WEBCAST Event INSIDE-OUT: INFLUENCING ISRAEL From a Global Jewish Perspective Since before Israel was created, her ideologies and borders have...
The Hebrew Mamita gets personal
Identity crisis doesn’t mean a thing to Vanessa Hidary, whose journey to her eclectically-gathered Jewish roots took her through the world of hip-hop and spoken word. A self-described...
Rock Your Keffiyeh Jewlicious Style!
A Keffiyeh is a traditional headdress worn by Arab men. Now we have this Jewish Keffiyeh, designed with magen davids and “am yisrael chai” embroidered in blue on white cloth. Keep in mind...
Life Imitates Family Guy. Sort of.
Family Goy. Get it? Season 8 Episode 2 of Family Guy, titled Family Goy had a very notable plot line wherein Lois, the mother on the show, discovers that her own mother is a holocaust survivor and...
on having the last word
It happened at a congregational meeting of a conservative shul in Northeast Philly. I had recently become a Bat Mitzvah and my parents felt I was ready for the drama that can ensue at meetings like...