Haifa Sea Haifa Sea Near Hadera Near Hadera Both beautiful images by PninaN. Check out her photostream. Well, this has not been a good week for yours truly, so let’s hope that the Sabbath brings some reprieve and next week will be better. I read Caroline Glick’s weekly editorial with interest. Agree ...

This week, Sy Syms, a tenacious NYC based retailer passed away. Known for selling name brand business apparel at deeply discount prices, and his tag line, that “An Educated Consumer is our Best Customer,” he brought discount retailing to Manhattan, took his chain public, and just recently purchased ...

lamb bacon I have enjoyed now for the second time in a week the most delicious breakfast: Eggs and Bacon. Now hold a second, Rabbi, bacon is trief! Or so I thought. Jewlicious Festival veteran, and supervisor of culinary arts at the Festival’s VIP wine tasting, Chaim Davids, delivered to me as a house ...

by Ruth Andrew Ellenson When I was little, my father would begin every Shabbat by having each person in my family donate money to the bright blue and white tzedakah box we kept in our dining room. We would collect coins and deposit them into the little metal slot one by one, listening to each one drop ...

In honor of the new Jewish month of Kislev, I joined my mom at Women of the Wall this morning. Women of the Wall is an organization that has existed for more than twenty years and meets monthly on Rosh Hodesh, the start of each Jewish month. Traditionally, Rosh Hodesh has been a time for women to gather ...

From the JTA: Woman wearing tallit arrested at Western Wall From the JPost: From Haaretz “Police arrest woman for wearing prayer shawl at Western Wall” From ArutzSheva: Police Arrest, Release Woman with Prayer Shawl at Kotel. In fact the articles are completely different — JPost says a woman was detained ...

Fear and loathing in hechsher land! By Heshy Fried of Frum Satire I set foot into kosherfest and immediately I was overwhelmed, it kind of felt like my first time in Las Vegas, only here, I was actually into what was being delivered to my senses whereas in Vegas I had no interest in gambling – it was ...

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions” – St. Bernard of Clairvaux, 12th century. By Lyon Roth Globes Magazine jstreet2 Today, most political roads seem to lead to Washington DC. Once there, you will also discover that nearly every letter of the alphabet enjoys a real road or street named after ...

Charred coins my ass fake_coin While digging wantonly under Al Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s 3rd holiest religious site, the Zionists usurpers conveniently claim to have discovered a trove of approximately 70 allegedly Jewish coins dating from the time of the 2nd Temple – you know, the one that never really ...

Beit She'arim Menorah - you know, just a little like the one we light 2000 years later because of our vivid imaginations Beit She'arim Menorah - you know, just a little like the one we light 2000 years later because of our vivid imaginations Some of you may recall our celebration of French journalistic ...