It’s been raining in Jerusalem all day. Any rain in Israel is a good thing given how we’re usually this parched miss in the middle of the desert. It’s doubly good today because we’vr been hit by yet another dust storm – the kind where this fine sand gets into EVERY. THING. EVERYWHERE. The rain […]
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The RCA is one of the world’s largest organizations of Orthodox rabbis and is the main professional rabbinical association within Modern Orthodoxy in the United States. Recently, the RCA passed a resolution which states, “RCA members with positions in Orthodox institutions may not ordain women into the Orthodox rabbinate, regardless of the title used; or […]
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Echo is the MC/Singer and Tito makes the machines squelch. These world travelers are based in Tel Aviv and their music is simply too good for the likes of you. Seriously. Go to another page or another site for all I care. Don’t ask for a Web site. Share their Facebook page with your stupid […]
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Indie City does two things, and they do them well. First they produce video clips of Israeli indie artists performing in random places in Jerusalem. This allows them to highlight both Jerusalem’s diverse city scape and Israel’s broad pool of musical talent. Then they also run an annual music festival where many of the same […]
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Ziv Barashi is a Jerusalem-based singer-songwriter. Running Home, produced by Bruno Grife is her first music video. Like it? You’ll be able to see Ziv live at Mazkeka Bar on November 9. What’s the show going to be like? Ziv describes it as such “…my solo show … incorporates my […]
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According to a new video put out by ISIS, once the Caliphate kills everyone in Syria , they will kill all the Jews in Israel and in the whole world. No seriously you guys! All the Jews everywhere! And soon.They figure what with all the havoc caused by a few punk […]
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Ten is a lifetime in Internet years. So much has happened in that time, it often boggles the mind. For instance, 10 years ago YouTube was run out of an office above a pizza joint in San Mateo, California and had not yet been acquired by Google. The most popular videos were user generated and […]
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The YidLife Crisis boys went to New York to nosh at the annual Workmen’s Circle Taste of Jewish Culture Street Fair. And what does Jewish culture taste like? European treiff apparently. I mean I wouldn’t be so offended if they had called it the Ashkenazic Culture Street Fair – but everything on sample seemed to […]
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Eitan Chitayat put together this spoken word presentation that spans the width and breadth of pretty much every kind of Jew there is, interspersed with inspirational commentary. These are tough times for the Jews and this inspirational video has come at the right time. Eitan wrote: Lest any Jew forgets – because of all the […]
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Vice reports “VICE News visits one of the most disputed pieces of land in the world, a holy site for Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem’s Old City that’s become the focal point of the latest wave of violence.” Vice talks to Rabbi Yehudah Glick who survived an assassination attempt last year and calls for the […]
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