So there’s been some discussion regarding Pat Oliphant’s most recent cartoon depicting Jews and Israelis as blood thirsty Nazis intent on driving Palestinians over a cliff. While I feel...
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Interview with Rabbi David Harbater, Director of SIACH
ck: We’ve been running some banner ads for this SIACH program that you founded and currently run in Jerusalem. I checked it out and found it actually kind of interesting. According to your Web...
Sacha Baron Cohen / Isla Fisher’s wedding Postponed
Slow Torah Studies to Blame Sacha Baron Cohen and his fiancee Isla Fisher have announced the postponement of their wedding. Fisher, an actress and mother of Cohen’s daughter Olive, is in the...
Eat My Hamantaschen
Goddess Perlman of Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad outdoes the boys in this awesome Purim themed video. Employing a combination of carefully styled Lego people and lyrics punched up with uh… cunning...
GreenKeit hits the Vatican?
At the recent Jewlicious Festival, one of our innovations was the institution of GreenKeit – a manifesto of sorts that merges environmental consciousness and traditional Jewish values. As such...
Jewlicious Festival 4.0 – Postscript
Looking back on this past weekend, I can’t help but be a little awed. I know that sounds a bit dramatic, especially since we are talking about what can be viewed as a glorified Shabaton, but...
Yehuda Kurtzer Wins Bronfman Brandeis Competition
Brandeis University selected Harvard PhD student Yehuda Kurtzer as the winner of its competition for the Bronfman Visiting Chair in Jewish Communal Innovation. Brandeis and the Andrea and Charles...
Praying With Lior has Fans Standing in the Cold but Warming Up Inside
Review by Larry Mark – Jewishfilm.com It took me three trips to the Manhattan’s Cinema Village theater before I got in to see PRAYING WITH LIOR, a new documentary film which opened to...