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Welcome Home Mahmoud Ahmadinejad!
On Wednesday I heard John Ruskay, the executive vice president of the UJA speak at a seminar of 50 college ...
Radiohead supports Lipa Schmeltzer
I’ve been thinking about what are arguably the two biggest scandals in the music industry right now: illegal downloading and ...
Nuclear Warfare & Obama’s Feelings…
When Barack Obama met with members of the Democratic Caucus to speak about his tour of the Middle East, he ...
Jesus Saves, Moses Eats Deli.
What a waste of a pickle. Probably a full sour too, by the looks of it:
When Archie Met Sammy
JTA reporter Jacob Berkman, who was himself the subject of these pages a few weeks ago, today reported that Michael ...
Egyptian, Jewish, and Glam…and Exiled.
Here’s something you don’t get every day: Sylvain Sylvain, guitarist for the ’80s glam-punk band The New York Dolls, was ...
Search engine likes Messianic Jews
Today’s New York Times ran an article about Cuil a new search engine started by a bunch of former Google ...
Live Jewish Poetry Slam!
Ben Bresky, the most prolific (if not the most obsessive) Jewish and Israeli music blogger out there, also hosts a ...
Estelle Getty z”l
Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in ...
Female Rabbis, Male Stand-up Comedians
Today on his blog, Frum Satire starts a discussion about whether women could be Orthodox rabbis. It’s interesting, less in ...