Let me be upfront: I am not a hockey person. I could not tell you what icing is, and I remain emotionally unavailable to any sport played on frozen water. But I am a Jewish person, and right now the...
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Maz Jobrani, Ethnics and Montreal’s Comedy Festival
Iranian / American comic Maz Jobrani is performing at Just For Laughs – the Montreal Comedy Festival. He’s got a solo show on July 23, He’s part of the Howie Mandel All-Star Comedy...
Jewiest Comedian Elon Gold gets Jewiest Interview Ever
When a Jewish Comedian gets interviewed by a Jewish blogger located in Israel, sitting in Hadassah Hospital while waiting for his wife to give birth, an hour before shabbat – that’s going...
Red Alert at Cheskie’s in Montreal
Today I went to Cheskie’s Bakery in the Plateau neighborhood of Montreal. Given that it was a Friday, the slow moving line was out the door. The people standing in line were a diverse...
Le Mood Montréal 2013: Plus ça change…
Jewlicious began just under 10 years ago in a digital media office in Montreal. At the time, reaching out to young, unaffiliated Jews via the Internet was a notion that was in its infancy. There were...
Passover Xenophobia in Quebec
It started off innocently enough. The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, the advocacy arm of the Jewish Federations of Canada, posted a holiday photo on their Facebook page. The World War II era...