Tweeting Tarantino
Tweets in reverse chronological order during Q&A after Jewish community screening of Inglourious Bastards, hosted by The LA Jewish Journal, the Consulate General of Israel, and the Board of Rabbis...
View Article“Am Yisrael Chai!”
Today, in honor of the international Holocaust memorial day, Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke at Auschwitz. Netanyahu spoke of the memory we, as Jews, must keep. We must remember our people, who have...
View ArticleLest We Forget
These are words that we hear at least once a year. For those of us who grew up in Jewish day school or in Sunday school, we heard this motto more often. “Lest we forget.” Lest we forget what? That our...
View ArticleHolocaust Remembrance Day from Agripas Street in Jerusalem –×™×•× ×”×©×•××”
10 a.m. Sorry about the shaky camera. Should have brought a tripod. That’s the Knesset at the beginning with the flag at half mast. Have a meaningful day.
View ArticleThis Holocaust Memorial Week We Are Writing A Torah
The Shabbat Tent was filled with song as a group of young Jews gathered to celebrate Shabbat in the desert, during Phish Fest, a music and camping festival attracting thousands of Jews amid the tens of...
View ArticleDo You Like “Jews Burn Again, Holocaust 2″?
Sick Facebook pages get sicker. We all know that lots of Jew hatred is out there. We know it ends up on Facebook and other social media sites. How long does it take to get a page removed? If you can –...
View ArticleSeveral Rabbis Attack FoxNews Via The WSJ
Let’s imagine you are a rabbi irritated by certain aspects of Fox News. You write letters and complain after Glenn Beck attacks George Soros saying that he collaborated with Nazis in Hungary during the...
View ArticleJedwabne Vandalism Opens Old Wound, Poland’s Reply Helps to Heal it
I got a text this week from a Polish friend that was particularly disturbing: the monument to the victims of the Jedwabne Pogrom was defaced by vandals who wrote, “I’m not apologizing for Jedwabne” and...
View ArticleIs it offensive to compare abortion to the Holocaust?
I think so, but I’m willing to be hear others’ opinions. Here’s the manipulative film called “180”
View ArticleKosha Dillz Diary Vol. 1: Respectfully Requesting More Yarmulkes
Guest Post by Kosha Dillz I am currently 10,000 plus feet in the air on some go go flight 15 dollar Internet shenanigan and after speaking with Rabbi Yonah at many of his amazing Shabbat dinners, I...
View ArticleI See Holocaust Everywhere
Guest post by Jonathan Zimmerman I am a haunted man. Each and every day, ghastly apparitions from times gone by besiege my consciousness. Often it seems only I can see them. But I know there are others...
View ArticleA Wooden Synagogue is Rising from the Ashes
In the course of World War II, an entire class of architecture was obliterated: the elaborate and sophisticated wooden synagogues of Poland. Not a single example of these remarkable structures survived...
View ArticleYom Hashoah: From the Depths of our Souls
Survivors are disappearing. We are left with stories, fragments, articles, films, interviews. But nothing can capture the enormity of what happened between 1939-1945. Nothing. After spending years in...
View ArticleStupid ADL / Urban Outfitters Holocaust T-Shirt (Non) Controversy
This is just ridiculous, I mean am I missing something here? See, Urban Outfitters had this t-shirt that they were selling online. Designed by a Danish clothing brand called Wood Wood, the shirt, which...
View ArticleBits and Pieces of Jewliciousness
The Israeli government’s hoped for move to the center is dashed by a failure to agree on a universal draft law that would apply to Ultra Orthodox Jews and Israeli Arabs. So Kadima broke up with Likud...
View ArticleNumbered, Nagila: Two Highlights of the NYJFF
The sixteen-day 22nd annual New York Jewish Film Festival, presented by The Jewish Museum and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, ended last week. Two of the standout documentaries they screened were...
View ArticleHolocaust Remembrance Day 2013
Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel started out in its standard manner here in Jerusalem. As the sun set Sunday night, the city ground to a halt as pretty much all commerce shut down. The Adopt-A-Safta...
View ArticleSuburban Detroit Mom Says No to Reading about Anne Frank’s Vagina
Gail Horalek, a parent in Northville, Michigan, filed a formal complaint with the local School Board after her 7th Grade daughter was assigned to read “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.” The book...
View ArticleJesus as Holocaust Victim? No, Jews for Jesus. No!
Just in time for Passover, Jews for Jesus, an organization dedicated to the notion that one can believe in Jesus and still be Jewish, saw fit to release a really offensive video. In the Schindler’s...
View ArticleZara Holocaust Shirt and Sweatshops
Spanish fashion retailer Zara earned the ire and incredulity of people worldwide after tweets aimed at the company lambasted it for producing a child’s sheriff star shirt that resembled the uniform...
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