What you get when three veteran Jewish community activists sit down and finish a bottle of Japanese Single Malt Whiskey. Late last spring, I sat down with Bill Kaplan, director of the Shalom...
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A Dream Realized – The Finest Kosher For Passover Slivovitz
It started when we lived in Warsaw and Rabbi Kastenbaum, our shochet, brought community-made slivovitz from Budapest to us for Passover. It was like nothing I had ever tried, was %70+ alcohol, and...
One Day; One Day; One Daaaayyy…there will be peace between Yuri Foreman and Matisyahu
Yonah and their gang had a very good time at Jewlicious 6.0 held in Long Beach last week. The LA Jewish Journal has covered it, and included an interesting clip of WBC world welterweight boxing...
Rose Bowl Rabbinic Rivalry
When Oregon and Ohio State take the field tomorrow in Pasadena at the Rose Bowl, there will be more going on than meets the eye. Enter Rabbi Drew Kaplan, newly appointed head of Jewish Student...
Rabbi Yonah is the New Swedish Hero
Watch the video after the bump. What? I don’t know! It’s well done and kind of cute and acts as a reminder to all that the 6th annual Jewlicious Festival will take place on February 19th...
My wedding speech at Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner’s wedding
I wish the newly-wed couple mazal and bracha. And while I was not asked to perform the wedding (the venerable Rabbi Haskel Lookstein had that honor) I figured that I would pen a small speech that...
Cast your vote for Jewish Unity
We are in the final hours of a contest that I never thought I would be in—let alone be leading. However, thanks to amazing support from around the world, we are a couple thousand votes shy of our...
Remembering The First Mobile Sukkah in Poland – 1997
Last night I spoke at the Happy Minyan about Sukkot, and it just felt right to tell some of the story of the first sukkah tour in Poland we created in 1997. The Mobile Sukkah was built at night in...