Rabbi Menachem Cohen, of the Mitziut community in E. Rogers Park, is off to Burning Man this coming week for this year’s incarnation of Congregation B’nai Hamidbar…. Thisyear the “Sistahood” of Menachem, Jay Michaelson and Sarah Lefton returns as the Black Rock JCC. Yes, even at [...]
Tangetally Jewish, remotely Jewish, Incidentaly or Accidentally Jewish. Lassaiz Faire Jewish. I take my heritage for granted Jewish. Liberal, therefore Jewish. I crave acceptance Jewish. I’m willing to sell myself to dogs Jewish. Nextbook’s Stephen Vider tears into HEEB in Kitsch over content.
“Part of Heeb’s initial attraction was transforming outsider status into a kind of [...]
Gal Fridman won Israel’s first ever Olympic gold medal today men’s Mistral windsurfing competition. Fitting tribute to the Munich 11 and a nice follow up to the Bronze the Israelis won in Judo, ’specially after the Iranians refused to compete against them in the early rounds… he he he.
What does the death of one of the film world’s most gifted composers have to do with the beginning of the holiest month of the Jewish year?
Emler Bernstein died Wendesday, Rosh Chodesh Elul. At the start of this month, Jews start thinking about Tshuva, or at least where they might go for the High [...]
Kosher Foie Gras only $142 per pound!
Holy sh*t! I gotta get me some kosher Goose livers! How else can I imitate my Iron chef heroes?!
The New York Times reports on jailed rapper Jamaal “Shyne” Barrow:
“And whatever modest publicity efforts Shyne can undertake will not take place on Friday nights or Saturdays – he recently began observing the Jewish Sabbath, a nod, he says, to his great-grandmother, an Ethiopian [...]
(via Ha’artez) On July 14, PA Interior Minister Hakim Balawi gave revealing testimony. He refrained from mentioning Arafat by name, but his words were clearly aimed at the PA chairman.
“… It is prohibited to launch rockets and to fire weapons from houses, and that is a supreme Palestinian [...]
If music is the food of love, then klezmer must be the schmaltz on the herring. At least trombonist Rachel Lemisch and pianist/harmonica player Jason Rosenblatt think so. Their love was kindled at KlezKanada, the annual festival of Jewish music and Yiddish culture in the Laurentians. On the evening of [...]
If you ever catch entourage, its a pretty entertaining show about a star on the rise with his fellas in tow. When the four go bowling one night with dates, the star brings a starlette (sp). The brother brings a female body builder. The best friend brings the assistant [...]
Uh, yeah, I do. ‘Cuz its gooood. Sweet, savory, lukshon, matzo, potato, squash- don’t matter to me. I luuuuvs my kugel. Because unlike Baynonim, I understand the Kugel is a personal thing. Everyone’s mother or grandmother made it slightly differently, which is why it is emblematic of Jewish diversity (or [...]
Anyone watching TNT’s mini-series “The Grid” may have noticed something amiss if they were watching closely. At the end of the episode, moderate Muslim Dr. Raghib Mutar, who turned his ner-do-well brother in to British Secret Service hands his MI5 contact, Derek Jennings, a token of his appreciation: a [...]
via kosherblog:
Urgent Cholent Alert!
Rival of Milford, MA is recalling five of its Crock Pot models manufactured between January 1999 and May 2002. If you have a model 3040, 3735, 5025, 5070, or 5445, they’ll replace the slow cooker’s base (not the ceramic insert).See http://www.rivalrecall.com/ to register for the recall, and see [...]
In keeping with the non-rise is global anti-Semitism, sources close to France declared that the following events did not occur this week:
Jewish graves desecrated in Lyon, France
Egypt newspaper: Holocaust a lie
Jewish students attacked at Auschwitz [...]
