The Reading List: Helen Thomas in Playboy… Not What You Think

By Ben Sales March 21, 2011

The 90-year old journalist, made famous last year for telling Israeli Jews to go back to “Poland and Germany,” gets interviewed in Playboy. She keeps her clothes on, but it’s anti-Zionist porn. [Playboy] Purim is over, but below is the funniest Purim video I’ve yet seen, this time by a couple guys I know from Camp Ramah…

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Jewish Confections

By jcohen March 21, 2011

Baking has always been a huge part of my family’s Jewish identity. In my household, each holiday and Shabbat requires some sort of sugary confection, be it brownies for an ordinary Friday night or sufganiot for Chanukah (P.S. I don’t recommend making these if you don’t like oily doughnuts). Lucky for me, my spring break…

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Hillel Greetings: Welcoming, Ignoring, and Rejecting

By ahowie March 21, 2011

Over the course of my (nearly) four years attending Hillel services on a near-weekly basis, I have had many different experiences.  My first week of college, I was appalled by the un-spirited service-attendees and minimalist ultra-Reform service my Hillel offered.  It worked for a few, but not for me.  The following year I was thrilled…

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