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Israel Memorial Day / Yom Hazikaron under Corona Lockdown
By ck on 4/29/2020
Israel’s Memorial Day, officially known as Israeli Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism Remembrance Day. It honors the memory of 23,816 soldiers killed in the...
Zayde, it’s time to go
By wendy in furs on 3/20/2020
Yesterday, apologies were issued after reports that Bernie Sanders was going to suspend his 2020 Presidential campaign proved to be untrue. Sanders was, at one...
CoronaTunes Dot IL – My CoVid-19 Quarantine Playlist
By larry on 3/14/2020
With so many residents in NY and NJ and across the USA under voluntary or mandatory self-quarantines; with over 500 cases of what is being...
Breaking Bad Style Crystal Meth Hamantaschen
By ck on 2/23/2020
I get unsolicited requests to link to content all the time, but the 4th time some guy called Shimon Sandler of Kosher.com sent me an...
Israel: The Land of Love and Honey
By Guest Post on 2/15/2020
Israel is not just a place I love, it’s the place that taught me love. In 2017, I moved to Israel for a yearlong immersive...
J-Town Playhouse Makes Its Final Theatrical Debut at the AACI
By ck on 2/15/2020
This past Thursday night, after a nearly decade-long run at the Association of Americans and Canadians in Israel, J-Town Playhouse made its final theatrical debut...
TJS S3E21 The spirit of the 60s part II
By Rav Mike Feuer on 1/19/2020
1964 was the Freedom Summer in America, and it saw a wave of white, Jewish volunteers leaving the comfort of their suburban existence to fight...
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Guess Who Came to the White House Hanukkah Reception 2019 (a not so nice pastor)
By larry on 12/11/2019
Today, the White House hosted its annual Hanukkah reception. Among the celebrants were President Donald J. Trump First Lady Melania Trump Vice President Mike Pence...
IMHO, Protecting Jewish Students with an Executive Order is a Bad Idea
By larry on 12/11/2019
Today, it has been reported that U.S. President Donald J. Trump will sign an Executive Order to define Judaism as a nationality, not just a...
Donut Time in Israel: Whose are Best?
By ck on 12/7/2019
Israel is not like America. In America, donuts are available all year round. In Israel, donuts are mostly sold during the 6 weeks before Hanukkah...
JewliciousEats: The Holiday Cookies You Crave 2019 (and 8 days of Challahs)
By larry on 12/5/2019
It has become somewhat of a new tradition for publications to highlight the newest cookie trends and recipes on the first Wednesday of December. And...
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It’s Raining Films: Israeli Films at Over 3 Fests
By larry on 11/16/2019
The 13th Annual Other Israel Film Festival arrived in Manhattan this week, filled with films and inspiring, and uncomfortable discussions. So Jewish, no? Equal doses...
“I had been bested” Megan Phelps on Sam Harris Podcast
By ck on 10/17/2019
Megan Phelps Roper was on the Sam Harris podcast to talk about her recently released book Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro...
Unfollow on Good Morning America
By ck on 10/8/2019
The first time Megan Phelps Roper and I interacted was just before Yom Kippur in 2009. In a now famous tweet she spoke about Judaism’s...
JewliciousEats: Annual Rosh HaShana Recipe Roundup 5780
By larry on 9/20/2019
L’SHANA TOVA. Hello from Paris, La Defense, where I am busy compiling the annual recipe roundup this week. Of course, we will start with the...
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Wow Eurovision Really Sucks!
By Gil on 5/19/2019
Our long national nightmare is finally over! After months of having to hear all about the plans for this year’s Eurovision contest which was held...
Sirens Across Israel – Yom Hashoah / Yom Hazikaron and then…
By ck on 5/10/2019
And then? Independence Day! Let me backtrack a bit. Every year in Israel after Passover, a siren sounds across the country to commemorate Holocaust Memorial...
TJS S3 Yom Ha’atzmaut: Independence or self-actualization?
By Rav Mike Feuer on 5/5/2019
There is no word for independence in Biblical Hebrew, and the roots of the modern word can teach us much. This might right be called...
Bibi Love?
By ck on 3/29/2019
Keren Hayesod Street is one of the main arteries of West Jerusalem, connecting tony, residential Emek Refaim with Jerusalem’s downtown core and King George street....
Is My Name David or Dayveed?
By ck on 3/21/2019
One of the cool things about the whole Westboro Baptist thing is that former member Megan Phelps Roper is really compelling. So compelling that she...