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Yom Kippur

Tonight and tomorrow Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. I wish you all a G’mar Chatima Tova – may you be sealed in the Book of Life.
Blogging will resume some time after Yom Kippur ends, tomorrow evening Israel time.

Shana Tova

With Rosh Hashanah – the Jewish New Year – approaching, I would like to take this opportunity to wish my readers  a happy, healthy and prosperous year.
And now for US President Barack Obama’s Rosh Hashanah message.

Errr, sorry, my bad. I meant this one.

I’ll be out of blogging action for the next couple of days so [...]

Rabbi-d Dog

No bark mitzvah joke here. Move along.
Update: For those of you wondering what the Rabbi was doing, he was blowing a shofar. You can read more about why Jews do that here.

Working Class Yid

I always get a kick out of discovering that someone I admire, who does not seem remotely Jewish, turns out to be one of the tribe.
In this case, the person in question – Aussie rocker Jimmy Barnes – did not know himself until recently.
When Jimmy Barnes sang a few versus in Yiddish before 1700 Jews [...]

Bet You Didn’t Know They Were Jewish #12

I’m reviving this feature, which has lain dormant for a year and a half.
For more posts in this series, see here.
Today’s Jew:

Became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1996
First gained attention as a Calvin Klein underwear model
Appeared in Janet Jackson’s “Love Will Never Do (Without You)” music video
Has appeared in a number of [...]

Surprise Article of the Day

Believe it nor not, I found this next piece on Ha’aretz.
Tisha B’Av will last forever,” promised Kamal al-Khatib, deputy head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, to thousands of cheering Muslims at the Temple Mount a few days ago. Even the hearts of Jews far from the mountain saddened. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas mocked us [...]

Tisha B’Av Takeaways

Today is the Jewish fast day of Tisha B’Av (the 9th day of the month of Av), on which a whole host of calamities befell the Jewish people (and the world), including:

The sin of the spies causing G-d to decree that the Children of Israel who left Egypt would not be permitted to enter the [...]

Open Thread: Shavuot Edition

Starting in a few hours, I’ll be celebrating the Jewish festival of Shavuot, followed by the Jewish Sabbath. Which basically means I’ll be eating a lot of milk products, learning a lot of Torah, and not be doing any blogging until Saturday night, Israel time.
In the meantime, you can treat this as an open thread. [...]

Happy Passover

With the Jewish festival of Passover (Pesach) approaching, I am going to sign off now and wish you a Chag Kasher V’Sameach.

I’ll leave you with this Japanese-style instructional video on breaking Matzah clean. An oldie but a goodie.

I would also like to remind Matzo Balls Man that this blog is a public place and is [...]

Freaky Friday Night Dinners Coming Up

Because apparently, Samantha Ronson marrying a non-Jewish woman would be too weird.
Lindsay Lohan is converting to Judaism in a bid to prove her devotion to Jewish girlfriend Samantha Ronson.
Although raised a Catholic, the 22-year-old star announced she was planning to change her faith on her Facebook page.
After jetting into London last week, Lindsay joined girlfriend [...]