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...
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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...
Unfollow on Good Morning America
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 “dead rote rituals” and chided me for...
Wow Eurovision Really Sucks!
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 in Tel Aviv, it’s safe for Israelis to watch the news...