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I’m told it’s because I never went to public school and fully appreciated diversity (read: the stubbornness of Jews in insisting that the holiday season include some mention of Chanukah), but I have to admit I went wild when I saw a group of 5th grade students from Staten Island singing Maoz Tzur, Light the Candles, and,…
We’ve all heard the story: Chanukah, the festival of lights, celebrates the miraculous event that occurred a couple thousand years back, where the Maccabees and their friends only had enough oil to kindle their menorah for one day, but it somehow lasted for eight days and nights. We’ve also heard this story: Chanukah is an…
This article is the third in the series “Procrastination HaYom”– a week-long series of funny videos, websites, articles, and pictures that will do nothing to help you get that A, but everything to help keep you sane during finals time. You know something’s made it big when Hasidim know about it. Or potential Hasidim. Yeshivish, maybe?…
This article is the second in the series “Procrastination HaYom”– a week-long series of funny videos, websites, articles, and pictures that will do nothing to help you get that A, but everything to help keep you sane during finals time. Dear Hashem, Even though Thanksgiving is over, I still have things to thank you for. Thank…
The Forward’s Artist-in-Residence, Eli Valley just published a comic about a recent episode at Bnai Jeshurun, a non-denominational, liberal synagogue in New York City. The rabbis had sent out an email to their congregants praising the U.N. Palestinian vote, and then, after intense media coverage and mixed reactions from the community, they later apologized and…
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There is a long history of anti-Semitism at Harvard University, though it is essentially gone today. There is also a long history of subtle — and not so subtle — grandiose acts of satire at Harvard. Last Friday morning, students who live in Harvard University’s nine River Houses awoke to find that the intersection of those two…
This article was originally posted on the personal blog of the author, which you can find here. Today I saw a pregnant woman lying in an alleyway crying, and I jogged right past her. Re-read that sentence. I jogged right past her. Yes. That’s right. Who have I become? Around 7:30 tonight, I left my apartment…
It’s December and that means finals. Finals finals finals. So, I have taken it upon myself to provide you all with as much fun/distraction as I can during the next two weeks. Welcome to Procratination Ha’Yom, a week-long series of funny videos, websites, articles, and pictures that will do nothing to help you get that…
You may not be familiar with Israel’s new hit “Kathmandu.” If not, check out this feature story by our own Gabe Weinstein to learn more. Though it may be a bit over dramatized, the show’s central premise is definitely true: there are few places in the world that don’t have a Chabad presence. If one of…
Every Friday night thousands of backpackers, suburbanites and college students stream into Chabad Houses from Columbus to Cambodia. But before Chabad emissaries can clank their glasses of Johnnie Walker to a “gut Shabbos,” they have to learn where to find kosher meat at the local Kroger, or master the art of bartering for vegetables at…
It’s Chanukah again, and unless you want to buy your friends a chocolate Santa (they are kosher…) the Jewish gift options are usually limited to yet another funky dreidel. Not that that’s bad. Dreidel is a highly underrated game. But most people already have at least one plastic dreidel they can dredge up from their…
Jerusalem, ISRAEL — Life-threatening terror ripped into Israeli skies two weeks ago, sweeping sleep from the eyes of an elderly resident of Moshav Even Shmuel and paralyzing his heart. A 2 a.m. siren wail and the nearby explosion of a Hamas-fired grad missile triggered a heart attack that might have listed Mordechai among the fatalities…