A couple weeks ago bigmouth Ann Coulter let me know how much she loves Jews by wishing we’d convert and thus be ‘perfected.” Yeah. And she did it on Cable TV no less in an interview with Donny Deutsch.
So much for loving our friends on the Christian right. They, like we Jews, love Israel, [...]
It’s no secret that I wasn’t born Jewish. Despite what the books said about not talking about conversion on the internet, I blogged my whole conversion. I’ve written about it here, on Shebrew, and in PresenTense Magazine.
In fact my last article in PresenTense was about the growing Jew By Choice Blogosphere and what a relief [...]
The Philip and Rebecca Esformes Day School, a Chabad Girls school, is the beneficiary of a rent dispute. The owners of the Lincoln Village Theaters on McCormick and Devon in Lincolnwood have sold their building to the school at a tenth of its value. More info is here and also here.
That’s great news for [...]
Recently, an interesting debate arose over at Semgirl’s place about over-enthusiastic Modesty Police in Lakewood NJ with nothing better to do than accuse women who walk with their arms swinging and wear hair bands of a suggestive color…
It spilled over onto Jewlicious, where ck argued that our brightest Torah minds perished in the shoah, leaving [...]
Last week there was a bit of dustup recently over some Jewish organizational efforts to silence the movement to recognize the Armenian Genocide at the hands of the Turks in WWI because a) nobody could have suffered more than the Jews and b) Turkey’s alliance with Israeli might somehow be jeopardized… Whatev. But thankfully that’s [...]
Okay, its a year old now, but I finally made it down to Eleven City Diner on State and 11th. The place is like a shrine to Jewish (not kosher mind you) Delicatessens all over the world, from Jerry’s to 2nd Avenue to Katz’s and so on and so forth. It visually took [...]
In May I reviewed the new JUF site and the blog that Aaron Cohen is writing. The good news? The JUF blog now accepts comments… however the comments are disappearing into a moderation queue without warning the commenter. I think. I left a comment and it disappeared, but was not posted.
Kudos for adding comments! A step [...]
