With the Jewish Sabbath – followed by Passover – approaching, I will be signing off for a few days. But before I go, I have been able to obtain for your listening pleasure – wait for it – a part of “Exodus: An Oratorio In Three Parts,” a dramatic biblical reading by William Shatner accompanied [...]
William Shatner is going where no man Charlton Heston has gone before. Less than a month after the death of Charlton Heston, another of Hollywood’s great over-actors is taking center stage in the retelling of the Passover story. This week the Jewish Music Group is releasing “Exodus: An Oratorio In Three Parts,” a dramatic biblical [...]
Amazing: A Hasidic man was cast in a Hollywood movie. More amazing: As Natalie Portman’s husband. Sublime: He gave it all up. First he couldn’t hold Natalie Portman’s hand – and now a Williamsburg Hasidic Jew-turned-actor has to give up his chance to hit it big in a Hollywood movie. Abe Karpen, 25, a married [...]
Ok, so Pope Benedict ordered changes to a Latin prayer for Jews at Good Friday services by traditionalist Catholics, deleting a reference to their “blindness” over JC, removing a phrase that asked God to “remove the veil from their hearts,” but still hoping Jews will recognize JC. “Let us also pray for the Jews. So [...]
Only in Israel would the prize for the winning team in a weekly Survivor challenge be a Shabbat Dinner with Challah, honey, wine and Shabbat Candles for the whole team. And only in Israel would the winning team share that prize with the losers because Jews don’t stop other Jews from eating a Shabbat dinner. [...]
I would venture to say that someone needs to brush up on their knowledge of Judaism. You can view the whole Hamukah series here.
Israelity reports: A robot programmed to work on Shabbat will do it: clear the table, turn off the oven, control the a/c and click lights off and on – especially the bathroom one that gets turned off accidentally in the middle of the night by half-awake innocents. According to the Hebrew press, “Shabbat Robot” is [...]
Last week I experienced my first truly religious Shabbat meal. I went to the Breslov synagogue in Tsfat full to bursting, and saw and heard the most amazing group act of praying I’ve ever felt. Mostly it was a complete jumble of people saying the same Hebrew words in their own time but ever now [...]
As we head in to this 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.
