FALASTIN: A COOKBOOK by Sami Tamimi with Tara Wigley, and a foreword by Yotam Ottolenghi Late Spring 2020 Ten Speed Press. Yotam Ottolenghi has written several very popular, best selling cookbooks;...
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TJS Live: Heralds of Zion I Rav Alkalai and Rav Kalischer
The first in the ‘Heralds of Zion’ series. After introducing the two essential elements of Zionism, we explore its roots in classical religious thinking and how modernity forced an...
K-Pop Playbook: How the #JewishPrivilege Twitter Trend Got Slammed
A few days ago, the hashtags of #JewishPrivilege, #Jewish Privelege (sic.), and #JewishPriveledge (sic.) trended online, as haters tried to piggyback on protest movement posts to pursue their own...
Silly boycotts: Si es un boicot, tiene que ser tonta
In the United States, in the past week, there was a call to BOYCOTT GOYA after the head of the family-run, privately held food company praised U.S. President Donald J. Trump after a White House...
JewliciousReads: In The Shul Where It Happened and Other June Beach Reads 2020
A selection of Summer reads for the Northern Hemisphere (and Winter Reads for the Southern) BIG SUMMER A Novel by JENNIFER WEINER Pub Date: MAY 5, 2020 Publisher: Atria Books Some reviewers said this...
CoronaTunes Dot IL – My CoVid-19 Quarantine Playlist
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 called coronavirus in NY State (as of March 14); with over...
IMHO, Protecting Jewish Students with an Executive Order is a Bad Idea
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 religion, in order to bolster the U.S. Department of...
“I had been bested” Megan Phelps on Sam Harris Podcast
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 Baptist Church. My favorite part? Where she talks about...