I am still holding out for a holiday where we’re required to enjoy four cups of good whiskey, but until then, I will just have to make do with this four cups of wine business, which isn’t that bad.
You can go crazy in the wine aisle trying to choose just the right wines for your […]

I went on Ha’aretz yesterday and read an article that made me feel mixed with emotions. I don’t know how I should feel. Should I support the Americans or shouldn’t I?
I’m speaking, of course, about the upcoming Simpsons episode where the family takes a trip to Israel.
Here’s what you have to understand. And if […]

Erez Safar always has an eye for interesting and unique musical talents. In the past I’ve talked about Erez’s awesome Lecha Dodi vs. Akon remix and the rhyming of Kosha Dillz. This time though, I gotta give a shout out to Erez’s newest prodigy, DeScribe.
If you were just to look at DeScribe, you might think […]

No one ever said keeping kosher was easy — or cheap. As we get closer to Passover, things like this become painfully apparent to anyone who’s walking in the vicinity of any supermarket: small bottles of grape juice for $5? Marshmallows for $10!? And let’s not even start with the matzah cakes….
(Although, of course, you […]

In her last posts, Goldie Goldbloom wrote about why she’s totally going to be excommunicated and about her cute, old stalker.
In order to research an obscure (but true) massacre which is part of my novel Toads’ Museum of Freaks and Wonders, I travelled to that part of Italy where massively heavy marble trucks roll […]

What’s your favorite unkosher food? Bacon? Ham? Lobster looks very appetizing. But none of those compare to my favorite.
Lox and bagels.
What you talkin’ about Jeremy? Lox is unkosher? Well, according to the Chevra Mehadrin, a group of rabbis in Monsey, NY, it is. They claim that smoked salmon contains a parasitic worm, and therefore […]

Last night the Jewish Book Council hosted their annual National Jewish Book Awards, and they were kind enough to invite me. I wasn’t a famous author or a famous book-buyer, but they let me in anyway.
At first my (a) shyness and (b) authory anti-social tendencies and (c) not knowing anybody-ness got the best of me. […]

The nerds have gone too far this time. Just too, too far. At what point do you say, “You know, if you want to smoke from a hookah so bad, why don’t you just buy a hookah?”
But no, no, no nerds. You had to out-do us. You couldn’t be like the rest of the young […]

As of this morning, Wikipedia defines “macaroon” as “a variety of light, baked confections, described as either small cakes or meringue-like cookies.” Applying that definition to JDub Records’ new band the Macaroons is like referring to Godzilla as a reptile. They’re tasty — er, musically — but light and small are not adjectives I’d throw […]

On Monday, Goldie Goldbloom wrote about why she’s totally going to be excommunicated (hint: She’s a Chasidic Jew who just wrote a novel about gay sex in the Australian Outback, circa World War II). She is the author of Toads’ Museum of Freaks and Wonders. She will be blogging all week for the Jewish Book […]