Happy Yom Ha’atzmaut!
In honor of Israeli Independence Day, a bit of satire from the Holy Land. Imagine what CAMERA would say if an American TV show produced this…
Journalism by Jewish college students, for Jewish college students.
In honor of Israeli Independence Day, a bit of satire from the Holy Land. Imagine what CAMERA would say if an American TV show produced this…
How Jews Eat from MyJewishLearning.com on Vimeo. The folks at MyJewishLearning.com are going multimedia on us! They recently published a video titled “How Jews Eat”, the second in an ongoing series that began with “How Jews Look”. As one commentor noted on Jewish food blog Jcarrot.org, the characters in this video bear an uncanny resemblance…
Holy shit was it nice today. Tomorrow, when you get up, listen to me live on Beyond the Pale, the weekly Jewish politics and culture show on New York’s WBAI. We’ll be live from noon until 1 pm ET. You can listen at 99.5 FM in New York or online by clicking here. Marilyn Neimark…
The New York Law Journal reported on Tuesday that Casbar, a swinger’s club in Brooklyn, was closed by a city judge after investigators testified that they had observed “150-plus acts of fellatio and intercourse” on an undercover visit to the venue. I guess that’s what happens when your swinger’s club is profiled in the Times….
Depending on whether you love Heeb, or hate Heeb (and people generally feel only one way or the other), you might have attended last night’s Brooklyn launch party for Heeb’s Music Issue and have already devoured its glossy pages of irreverence and pics of cute hipsters. You might have found that the issue is kind…
Ah Birthright, you’ve done it again. Your clever web banner intrigued me, tempting me to point and click. I even watched the videos I found when I arrived at your Monologues site. I even thought that the performers seemed talented (and not just in that, “they’re pretty talented for a bunch of amateur Jews”, kinda…
Want to hear more on Hilltop rockers Aharit Hayamim, the Israeli jam band whose North American tour is the subject of “Settler Rock Comes to the States”? Click here for an audio version of the story, featuring a backstage interview with Aharit Hayamim and reactions from Dan Sieradski, among others. The piece, which I wrote…
Hilltop Jam Band Aharit Hayamim Plays Jewlicious, 92YTribeca
Would-Be Rabbinical Students Question the Ban on Intermarriage in the Non-Orthodox Seminaries
We’re still working out the kinks of the new site. We’ll be on a regular posting schedule next week. Check back then for a new issue of the magazine, plus an active blog. In the meantime, look around and let us know what you think of the new (virtual) digs.