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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 ...

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