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The King’s Speech… from a Jewish perspective?
January 28, 2011The film with the greatest number of Oscar nominations this year is The King’s Speech, directed by Tom Hooper, and starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek Jacobi, and Guy Pearce. It tells the story of Prince Albert, a son of King George V of the British Empire, who suffered as a stutterer, [...]
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Jews and Trees: The Relationship
January 26, 2011Article by Rachelle Menshikova Photo credits: Edward Kaprov, for more of Edward’s photos, go here. Is there a special relationship between Jews and trees? There must be. Planting a tree in Israel today, even if you’
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No Oscar Or Cesars for Israeli Films in 2011
January 25, 2011In a few hours, the nominees for the 2011 Oscars will be announced in California. But I can tell you now that no Israeli film will be among the nominees for best foreign language film. Oh, remember the days of old when Israel was in the running: Like in 2008, when Beaufort was a nominee; [...]
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A Jewlicious Shabbat In Sundance
January 21, 2011If you or any of your fellow children of Israel are going to the great Mormon State of Utah this weekend for the Sundance Film Festival – make sure to stop by our Shabbat reception. This Shabbat / Cocktail Evening at Sundance is a great chance to meet others in the biz, enjoy fresh challah, [...]
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J Street Sides with the Palestinians
January 19, 2011Here’s a short little story about J Street – the supposedly “pro-Israel” advocacy group that supposedly supports Israel, even if their student group can’t bring itself to use the label “pro-Israel” in their self-description. Yesterday, the Russian Prime Minister was visiting with Mahmoud Abbas and declared that his country – which is a member of [...]
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Sarah Palin and Blood Libels
January 18, 2011A slight furor, or perhaps simply raised eyebrows, came about when Sarah Palin used the phrase ‘blood libel’ to describe the attention paid to her (and pundits like her) rhetoric. Jewish American public figures from Dershowitz to Foxman to David Harris gave across the board responses (Muffti will let you try to figure out who [...]
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Minnie Driver, Paul Giamatti & Dustin Hoffman in Mordecai Richler Adaptation; A Yiddish Romeo & Juliet; Gabrielle Giffords, Debbie Friedman & More
January 17, 2011Click here to watch in High Definition (HD)
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Guess Who’s Staying for Shabbos
January 15, 2011Just two weeks into 2011, and three companies are reportedly staying for Shabbat in Israel, And I don’t mean Google. Chicago based Groupon.com knows that Israelis are good shoppers. They therefore acquired Tel Aviv centric Grouper this week for perhaps $8 million (according to Globes). Grouper will soon be known as Groupon. Groupon president and [...]
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Sarah Palin as Victim of Blood Libel? Oh my…
January 12, 2011Sarah Palin, former Governor of Alaska, former Republican Vice Presidential candidate and current moron-du-jour released a statement today where she denounced efforts to blame her for the recent shooting rampage in Tucson. In a lengthy statement posted on her Facebook page, Palin called efforts to blame her for the shooting “reprehensible,” adding that “especially within [...]
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The Jewish Media Conspiracy: Beer and Challah Edition
January 11, 2011Andrew Krucoff, of the Jewliciously Bar-Mitzva-ed Andrew Krucoffs, is having hipster Shabbat parties at his apartment with reckless abandon. Because it physically hurts me to recount the whole piece for you, I would like to play a game I call “Hipster Bingo” in evaluating the level of pain various mentions in this article bring me, [...]
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Are Jewish Mothers Losing to The Chinese*?
January 11, 2011The Wall Street Journal published an essay, titled “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,” this past Shabbat. It was written by Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School and the author of a new book, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” which will be published on the fortuitous day of 1/11/11. The essay generated 1,200 [...]
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National Jewish Campus Organizer Brings Passion and Punch
January 10, 2011Marissa Nuckles is according to her Facebook page ‘
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A collective mi shaberach for Congresswoman Giffords and for Debbie Friedman
January 9, 2011Tonight in North America, two Jewish women are fighting for their lives. Collective prayers are being said for their full recoveries. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was shot while she was meeting with her constituents in Tucson Arizona. She was gravely wounded. A dozen victims were injured and five or more were reportedly killed, including Gabe [...]
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Gallup: Jews are Happiest
January 7, 2011The Gallup Poll in the United States released their latest study this week on the state of wellbeing across Americans of various faith. Jews, the study found, have the highest wellbeing, overall. The second group are the non-religious. Does this mean more Americans will give up on their red bracelets, Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism and [...]
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What Is Jewlicious?
January 7, 2011That’s a question I get asked a lot – even by people who read this blog or have attended the Jewlicious Festival. So yeah, there’s a bunch of different things we do, which is why sometimes we are difficult to define. Some of our friends got together and produced the following 40 second video clip [...]