If you wanted to design a synagogue that nobody could possibly accuse of being too pro-Israel, you’d build Congregation Beth Elohim. It’s the biggest Reform shul in Brooklyn, sitting in...
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While We Were Off, Part 2: Dancing at the Nova Site
Simchat Torah 2023 is the day the music stopped at Nova. Hamas murdered 378 people at the rave in the Re’im Forest and dragged 44 more into Gaza. Three years later, this past Saturday, dozens...
While We Were Off, Part 1: The False Flag Crowd
While we were off dancing with Torah scrolls, the internet decided that the flydubai attack was a Mossad operation. The Combat Antisemitism Movement clocked the first “false flag” post 67...
Thank God for Rude Israelis: Everything We Know About flydubai Flight FZ1073
Let’s be honest about something. Israelis are terrible on airplanes. I say this with love, as someone who has flown in and out of Ben Gurion more times than I can count. The plane hasn’t...
Sydney Sweeney Has Good Jeans. Judaism Doesn’t Care.
Sydney Sweeney may or may not have gone to shul on Rosh Hashanah. The internet has already scheduled her bat mitzvah. Besties, that is not how any of this works. So you’ll remember that I spent...
One of the Best Croissants I Ever Ate Was at The Michael Levin Lone Soldier Base in Jerusalem
I need to tell you about the time I walked into The Michael Levin Base expecting nothing and got handed a croissant. It was Bastille Day, or as the French actually call it, “le 14...
Robert Kraft Turned Macklemore Into a Movement. Nice Work, Bob.
Let’s do some basic math. Before Robert Kraft got involved, Macklemore was booked to open eight of the ten remaining shows on Ed Sheeran‘s Loop tour. Eight nights of stadium crowds...
Same Story, Bigger Screen: NAZA and the Treason That Wasn’t, Until It Was
I haven’t seen NAZA. I mention this up front because it seems to be the one thing I have in common with nearly everyone in Israel who is currently furious about it. The film hasn’t...