Way back in 2007 I wrote a blog post about the weird Chinese trend of loving all things Jewish. Kind of the reverse of Jewish girls getting yin-yang tattoos is Chinese people buying books called The Eight Most Valuable Business Secrets of the Jewish. I ended that blog post with the following sentence: Am I [...]

With 2010 coming to an end, it’s time to go out and buy some new calendars for your fridge door. If you happen to live in the Ithaca, New York area, you should pop buy the Cornell University Hillel. There, you can get one of the more unique calendars of the year. There have been [...]

A little while ago we told you about Mezuzazine — an amazing little ‘zine about the strange and wonderful commandment from the Torah to put a mezuzah on the doorpost of your house. Today David, the person behind Mezuzazine, sent me this in the email. It’s by far my favorite Chuck Norris Fact, and the [...]

I manage my best friend’s JDate profile, which means that when he recently got a message from a 51 year old woman, I got to read said message first (in short: date my daughter! Please!). In my capacity as his JDate manager, I have browsed many a profile and seen some pretty weird things. I [...]

Yesterday, I wrote about how much New Year’s Eve can suck when it falls on a Friday night. But instead of just complaining about it, I decided to get off my butt and come up with a couple of ideas that can make your New Year’s Shabbat really fun and enjoyable. And no…playing Monopoly is [...]

I’ve been getting steadily more obsessed — via reading the book Kosher Nation and my wife working at a restaurant, mostly — with the food we eat and how it gets here. Last week, a kosher-inspector friend was telling me about a commercial (non-Jewish) ketchup factory. It’s the messiest building you’ve ever been to, he [...]

The solar system doesn’t want me to party. It doesn’t want you to party either. If it did, it would somehow avoid putting New Year’s Eve on a Friday night. It’s been worse. I’m sure many of you Shomer Shabbat people remember that the new millennium was brought in on Shabbat. This is also known [...]

Yesterday morning I was at airport at five in the morning. After a grueling security line, I was instructed to walk through the infamous backscatter. I asked for a pat down instead, and was then subjected to…well, I don’t know what to call it. Something between a physical and a third date. The woman who—what [...]

At first I was skeptical. No one wants to read an entire blog just about people who have died, right? Seems like kind of a buzzkill. But I’ve been converted into a believer. The new blog over at JTA, “The Eulogizer,” written by Alan Abbey, is exactly what it sounds like. Abbey sifts through the [...]

I’m in New York right now and buried under snow, but Israel is still trying to recover from the tragic fires that consumed lives, land and trees in the Carmel region. The Israeli-Moroccan hip-hop artist SHI 360 released this video to let people know what’s going on, and how they can help. The video features [...]