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Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy In a city where lingerie-clad women pout down at us from every other billboard, one more mostly-naked lady shouldn’t make such a difference. But New Yorker Stella Boonshoft has, whether she meant to or not. Stella, as she’s now known to millions, is […]
In a recent blog post, New Voices gave you exciting information: Kosher tailgating recipes are finally available to the kosher-tailgating-snack-less. But today, we have kosher sports news that will wipe those recipes off the map: For the first time ever, the Super Bowl will have glatt kosher hot dogs available to the kosher consumer. Kosher […]
Sometimes contemporary American is terrifying. And sometimes it’s wonderful. I’ve just discovered that a man called Upendra Chivukula, born in Nellore, India, is running for the U.S. House of Representative in the New Jersey 7th Congressional District. On the home page of his website, one of the images in the rotating banner is this: You’ll […]
Are y’all as excited for the Presidential Foreign Policy debate as I am? Probably not – but prepare yourselves. If I can’t get you fired up, the FP Debate Bingo/Drinking Game at the bottom of this post might. I’m excited because a few weeks ago this campaign was over. Romney made multiple foreign policy gaffes, […]
On October 16th, New York City’s Yeshiva University hosted an event billed as a panel discussion with Gilad Shalit and half the members of his IDF platoon. The title, for all intents and purposes, was GILAD SHALIT; in the weeks leading up to the discussion, everyone here at Y.U. would ask, “Are you going to the […]
For American high school seniors, October means one thing: College applications are right around the corner. It’s almost so obvious it doesn’t need saying, but in the Gaza Strip, there is no season when the minds of a generation automatically turn toward college applications. Here in America, tis the season for prospective students to roll […]
With an article so deliciously titled, it’s hard to resist the opportunity to poke fun. In fact, a quick perusal of Wiki-How articles proves that the cynical world of journalism has not done nearly enough ridiculing of this website, a collection of life’s most mockable texts: how-to guides. In the name of proper responsibility, The […]
Recently, I attended a wedding. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. The ceremony opened with the grooms reciting their intentions to one another. This was followed by scripture readings: first, from the Tanakh; then, from the Christian Bible. After a mutual ring exchange, the Sheva Brachot were recited. Only, instead of recitations from honored […]
This Saturday night, I embarked on a journey that was perhaps long overdue. I participated in an important Jewish life cycle event that seems to have become as vital as a Bar Mitzvah or a wedding. This weekend, I went to my first AIPAC conference ever, the 2012 AIPAC Summit in Boston. Walking into the […]
Who could have predicted that LMFAO’s 2009 Top Forty Hit would actually later double as the soundtrack for our 2012 presidential debate season? Such keen cultural insight, such profound political understanding. Debate drinking games are all the rage right now. Facebook statuses and Twitter references are aflood. To give a brief historical overview of the […]