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The America-Bashing, Pro-Taliban Tweets of Nir Rosen
February 17, 2011(I’m reposting this after it vanished from our site for a moment) On September 11th of last year, Nir Rosen, who yesterday found great humor in the sexual assault of Lara Logan, tweeted that it was “hard to disagree with much of the Islamic Emirate Of Afghanistan Statement Regarding The Anniversary Of The 9/11 Event.” [...]
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Israeli Photographers Stunning Photo of the Year
December 13, 2010I just read about the Local Testimony photo awards given to the best work by Israel’s professional photographers. Daniel Bar On–whose shocking image from an Israeli nationalist rally outside the Turkish embassy in Tel Aviv, which supported the IDF attack on the Mavi Marmara–won the award for best photo of the year. It’s such an [...]
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Another mother poem: Thanksgiving
November 24, 2010Thanksgiving THANKSGIVING Last year I carried you inside to the buffet, to the table to the big blue birth ball where I bounced beside the fire. Darkness falls early here at this season: the eve of the day I’d spend pacing the hospital, contracting in the shower. This year you scramble around [...]
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Another mother poem: chasing the ball
November 4, 2010Chasingtheball CHASING THE BALL The kettle on the stove whistles a low, slow tune as you circuit from nursery to hallway to kitchen and back again, chasing a rattling ball. When you catch up to it, you throw it forward again and I remember all of the goals I tossed out then [...]
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Israeli Bands Invade CMJ
October 10, 2010No rockets involved! Every year, the CMJ Music Marathon hosts over 1,200 indie artists over the course of 5 days, and is the largest and longest-running music industry event of its kind anywhere. This year, Israel will be well represented with no less than 8 bands/artists showcasing their musical chops in New York City. These [...]
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Happy Birthday, Puppet.
October 9, 2010Dear CK, In honour of your birthday, I’d like to share a song by someone who would have celebrated his 70th birthday today. Happy Birthday, young man, and the sweetest new year of life to you. Lots of love, froylein
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Etrogcello!
October 8, 2010The etrog a fascinating fruit. (Don’t believe me? Try reading The Trail of the Elusive Etrog.) Nothing else smells quite like an etrog (or, to use its English name, citron); every year when mine comes in the mail and I lift it out of its packaging, I inhale and suddenly I’m hyperlinked with every Sukkot [...]
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Jewish Community Heroes: Our Choices
October 4, 2010Less than a week left to vote! This year’s Jewish Community Hero contest is winding down and I trust you’ve all been voting for your favorite candidates. Last year, the Jewlicious community rallied massively behind our own Rabbi Yonah Bookstein, delivering the most votes of any nominee. This year, we have no horse in the [...]
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If my pen is offensive, Im gonna need some kind of warning.
October 3, 2010Crossposted to The Reform Shuckle If your communal standards are non-standard, do us all a favor and have some signs made. Please? Last year, I spent all of Yom Kipur and the morning of Simchat Torah at Kehilat Hadar. I did a repeat performance this year, adding several hours at Bnai Jeshurun on the night [...]
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Israeli Museum Honors We Con the World Anti-Arab Video
September 21, 2010Every so often even the strange place we call Israel produces a development so odd that you don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Beit Hatfutzot is the respected Israeli museum devoted to the study of the Jewish Diaspora. Every year, it holds the NADAV Peoplehood awards ceremony which this year will coincide with an [...]
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Rosh Hashanah Has Nothing to do with Comics
September 10, 2010Jewish educator and comics critic David Wolkin digressed from his usual lampooning of graphic novel misfires to muse meaningfully on the new year. The post has, decidedly, nothing to do with comics and thus we happily repost it here. Yesterday was the first night of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year. It’
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Shana Tova!
September 9, 2010To all of our readers, we wish you a healthy, happy, fruitful, productive, enriching, lovely and blessed year. Shana tova from Jewlicious!
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To a Good, Sweet and Peaceful New Year
September 9, 2010Blessed are You God and may we have a good and sweet New Year! I hope you’re able to enjoy my favorite apple variety, Honeycrisp, and dip them in some local honey and enjoy that indescribable mix of sweet and sour that comes from a bite of apple dipped in honey. May we have a [...]
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Another mother poem: a sweet year
September 8, 2010A SWEET YEAR No honey until you’re a year old, but I can pop the seal on a pint of last year’s applesauce. The afternoon light was thick and gold the day we cored a bushel and a peck, hands sticky and kitchen fragrant. The jars were earmarked: for latkes, for breakfast, and for you [...]
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Jeremiah goes to Washington
September 8, 2010It’s (almost) another year on the Hebrew calendar, and that means it’s time for another cohort of DC Jeremiah Fellows. This fantastic program is run by Jews United For Justice, DC’s local Jewish social justice organization. If you live in DC and are in the right demographic, consider applying this year; otherwise, tell [...]