Say hello to Y .Shafario, a new rapper who is from the Baltimore suburbs. He moved to New Orleans to become a lawyer, only to move to Jerusalem to become a family man and rapper. In this new rap song, the rapper strikes a series of lyrical truths over a hip-hop beat about pleasing the Neshama and G-d […]
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Comedy Central’s hit show about two young Jewish women, Broad City, shows how they struggle with fasting on Yom Kippur and the difficulties of waiting until sunset to break the fast. Granted, there’s something perverse about breaking your Yom Kippur fast with a bacon, egg and cheese bagel, but as the girls noted at the […]
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George Takei, famous for portraying Hikaru Sulu in the Sci-Fi show, Star Trek, explains to talk-show host Howard Stern that the celebrated hand sign actually alludes to the hand sign that the Kohanim use.
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Bari Weiss, a New York Times editor, speaks to Bill Maher about her new book, How to Fight Anti-Semitism and anti-Semitism in America.
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Israelis don’t really understand American Jews. They don’t understand their interests, they don’t understand the way they manifest their Judaism, they don’t even understand their eating habits. As such, Kan, Israel’s public broadcaster, sent their reporter Oriel Danielson into the deep South, presumably to find the most American Jews and see what they were into. […]
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What if there was an app that could tell you where to find the nearest Shiva house? OK, let me explain. When a Jew dies, their closest relatives have to mourn for 7 days. This involves, among other things, being housebound for seven days in the “Shiva House.” Mourners are not supposed to cook so […]
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This whole Jews eating at Chinese restaurants on Christmas eve thing is so common and so well established, that its become a veritable cliché. Single Jews can go to their local MatzoBall party, religious/kosher Jews can eat out at the same kosher establishments they always eat at, but for the majority of non-practicing North-American Jews […]
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Meet Minnie Tonka and Darlinda Just Darlinda, otherwise known as The Schlep Sisters. They have been performing burlesque with a Jewish twist for the past eleven years now–with routines that include sexy latke making, a striptease explanation of Passover and a very sultry dreidel dance. The Forward did a featured segment on the duo in […]
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The Living Wells is made up of “two students of wisdom on a quest to revolutionize music and the world. With a dynamic blend of powerful melodies and profound hip-hop lyrics, this team will capture your heart while energizing your soul.” Moshe Friedman and Rick Fox look like the kinds of Ba’al Tshuvah Yeshiva students […]
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