I am voting for Nebraska (which was mostly filmed in Montana). Films depicting noble Arabs in the Middle East and Jews acting as con artists in America scored high among the Oscar nominations that...
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Best Jew-licious Cookbooks of 2013
The New Jewish Table: Modern Seasonal Recipes for Traditional Dishes by Todd Gray, Ellen Kassoff Gray ,and David Hagedorn When Todd Met Ellen And Opened a DC Restaurant. When Chef Todd married his...
Will Anyone Fill Bronfman’s Chair?
As the Jewish world comes to grips with the passing of the legendary Jewish leader, activist, philanthropist and businessman Edgar Bronfman, who died this weekend at the age of 84, major questions...
MTV’s Search for a Jewish Dad
Breeana is a teen in Reno, Nevada, the daughter of two women who used a sperm donor to conceive, who embarks on a cross country trip to meet some of her fifteen half-siblings who are also the...
Rutgers Univ Jewish Studies: Springsteen Is A God
At Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, home-state of singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen, a Byrne Freshman Seminar course will be offered in 2014 that studies the theology of Springsteen...
70 Year Old Men Enraged At Miley
Miley Cyrus’ wrecking ball was aimed at 70-year-old Jewish men this week when she said in an interview with HungerTV.com that she doesn’t want creative decisions for her brand made by out...
1% of Orthodox Jews Have Xmas Trees?: Learnings from Pew’s Study of American Jews
Pew Research Center released its newest study of the American Jewish community, and there are few surprises, unless perhaps you would be surprised that 22% (or 1 in 5) replied that they describe...
A New Year’s Giveaway!
Seltzer: Addicted. Since childhood. And I’ve been halishing over a SodaStream since I first discovered one at my dear friends, the Hollanders z’l, in Jerusalem years ago. BTW (Haslishing...