The stars of Joey, Matt LeBlanc and Drea de Matteo, feature in a hilarious promotional video for the 25th Chabad Telethon. Check it out here. Update: The telethon will be broadcast live from Hollywood this Sunday, with an all-star cast. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Matisyahu, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and James Caan are among those [...]
London Jews and Muslims enjoying a good relationship? Absolutely, at least in this case: The typical view,” said Ismail Amaan, “is that Muslims and Jews can’t get along. We’ve proven that wrong.” Amaan and fellow Muslim Jewish Forum cofounder Rabbi Herschel Gluck have spent the past five years disproving “the typical view” by bringing [...]
The Jewish holiday of Shavuot begins tonight. You can learn more about it here, here, or here. I wish my Jewish readers a Chag Sameach. Blogging to resume Tuesday.
With Passover (Pesach) beginning on Saturday night, I would like to point you all to last year’s post on the subject. Want more? Ok, fine. You can check out this cute Passover animation. To all of my Jewish readers, Chag Kasher V’Sameach. Blogging to resume Monday.
To all of my Jewish readers, have a happy Purim. That’s an order. To my non-Jewish readers who do not know what Purim is, you can find out more here, here, and here. You can also read my post from last year for a brief summary. I will be celebrating tomorrow, so don’t [...]
Mmmm..kosher deli food: check out these advertising ideas for Bernstein’s Deli. Warning: Not for the Jewish humor impaired. (taken from here)
I just couldn’t resist this story: A life prisoner petitioned the Tel Aviv District Court Tuesday, after the Prisons Service stopped supplying him strictly kosher food after guards found pornographic material in his cell. Gur Hammel, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Itamar, is serving life in the Ayalon Prison in Ramle for [...]
Spread the word about my favorite spread. It’s back. After an absence of more than six months, a batch of kosher Vegemite should hit supermarket shelves in the new year, Kosher Australia (KA) announced this week. The general manager of Melbourne’s kashrut authority, Yankel Wajsbort, reported that it had reached an agreement with Vegemite [...]
The Jewish festival of Hannukah begins tonight. In anticipation of this fun Jewish holiday – I say fun, since we get to light fires, eat lots of donuts (mmm…donuts), and play games - I have compiled a list of interesting links for your reading pleasure. It’s a Miracle A cruse of oil which lasted for eight days, [...]
Yad Vashem is now online. I have started searching in the Central Database of Shoah (Holocaust) Victims’ Names for details on relatives who perished in the Holocaust. Unfortunately, much of my family was wiped out during this dark period. On the positive side, perhaps I will find out about some living long-lost relatives through this [...]
