Partner Blogs
South by Southwest: The Jewish Edition
Alan Jay Sufrin and Miriam Brosseau form Stereo Sinai, a self-described “biblegum pop” band based in Chicago, IL. This week, ...
Too Busy Studying to be a Terrorist?
My high school was in the news around New Year’s because it received a bomb threat on Dec 31st. I ...
Open Mouth, Don’t Insert Foot
Last night a friend of mine really upset me. I know it wasn’t intentional, but she said something that sent ...
Interview: Erez Safar/Diwon
Erez Safar is busy these days. Known also by his stage name, Diwon, Safar, along with being a DJ and ...
Wise Fridays: How to Read the Torah
It is not my place to teach people how to read a chapter of Tanakh because the keys to this ...
Infinite McCloud is Overrated
Not into College Basketball? There is a great alternative to keep you busy.Check out the official Name of the Year ...
Rav Ovadia Yosef Has Some Catching Up To Do
The New Republic blog The Plank has a funny post about Sayyid Ali Kameini’s website. Now, I’m not surprised that ...
Israel: The Need to Rebrand
Last night, I had dinner with Ronald Lauder and some other folks who tackled a lot of different political, philosophical, ...
I Smell a Sitcom!
There’s a headline on ynet today that I am begging someone to make into a sitcom pilot or the premise ...
Interview: The Idan Raichel Project
Only a few years ago, Idan Raichel was just some dreadlocked guy in a Tel Aviv basement, composing music on ...
Debunking a Theory of a Deadman
God, you’re an idiot Josephus…Everyone has heard of the Dead Sea Scrolls. For years, most scholarship on the scrolls has ...
The True Difference between Secular & Religious Jews
Via Frum Satire, who bridges the gap himself with an impressive wallop of humor and self-mockery. He wrote an (as ...
Recent Commentary on Israel and Two Opinions on Gaza
What does the rise of Avigdor Lieberman mean for Russians in Israel, and for the non-Russians? (Slate)If Hamas-Fatah Unity talks ...
Yiddish 2.0
It’s weird and somewhat scary to realize that you can put a cap on the number of Yiddish books ever ...
Huge Diamond Heist, It Must Have Been the Jews
I love heist movies (Bank Job, Inside Man, Ocean’s 11 etc) and heist books (The Great Train Robbery and anything ...