My latest in the Times of Israel. Enjoy! As always, if you like it, share it! “You shall count for yourselves -- from the day after the Shabbat, from the day when you bring the Omer of the waving -- seven Shabbats, they shall be complete....
Ok, I just discovered a website to make your own parody of those motivational posters that were on corporate walls back in the '90s. While they're not new, this seems to be the unofficial latest meme on Facebook. I now know how I will be...
Thanks to JewishBoston for commissioning this piece since picked up by Jpost. Chanukah. Hanukkah. Chanuka. So nice, I spelled it thrice. What’s not to like about the Festival of Lights? A time to sing….to play….to clog your arteries with cooking oil. LET’S PARTY! Whether you like your latkes...
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Five days till "63 More Things about Israel" goes live! Four days if you get the paper. Stay tuned...
Tonight begins Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. All public places of entertainment this evening are closed this evening as the nation remembers the tragedy of six million Jewish lives lost in the Holocaust. Restaurants, cafes, bars, movies...
Good morning, everyone-are you enjoying your Pesach? Can you believe here in Israel we're more than five days into this thing? Two more and it's chametz time. (Kind of like Hammer Time but with more bread and less booty-shaking.) I spent three nights last week around...
It's 8:26 AM: do you know where your chametz is? Mine is quietly minding its own business in the cupboard, doing whatever chametz does when left unattended. I'm slowly coming to terms with Passover starting in only 10 hours, another holiday where I failed to...
Shalom, my loyal readers! Are you all preparing for Pesach? I know I am. Jewish tradition dictates that before the holiday begins, we should all do a bedikat chametz, or checking for chametz, in our homes with a candle and feather. I just did mine....
If you missed my Purim spoof on eJewishPhilanthropy yesterday, here it is in its entirety. On the heels of their national tour and another hit holiday song, The Maccabeats are hotter than ever, and now, everybody’s favorite Jewish acapella band is planning its next move....