Do you deserved to get JOC-slapped? You know who you are. Blogger MaNistana has decided to start using MaNistanaTV on You Tube to make an interesting batch of humorous/informative videos. To learn more about MaNishtana, watch the video below. He’s also joined Jewcy.com, writing two recent posts for them. And you can also follow him… Continue reading MaNishtana Goes You Tube
Photo by Judy Gigliotti/Be’chol Lashon “Sukkat Shalom: From Uganda to U.S. and Back” in The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles follows Rabbi Gershom Sizomu returns to lead the followers of Judaism in Uganda after being ordained in Los Angeles. (Of notable mention this time of year, Sizomu’s grandfather was arrested for building a sukkah… Continue reading Spend a Shabbat in Uganda
So, now on top of all the Jewish reading I’m doing (or not doing), I’m reading Moment Magazine. Yeah, yeah, I should be reading Torah but check out this interview with cartoonist Robert Mankoff telling us all why Jewish humor is unique.
A delicious sampling of the latest news in Jewish conversion! “Shas MK: Ease Conversion for IDF Soldiers of Jewish Descent” (Israeli National News) At some point during the conversion process, I heard that things went a lot smoother if you had a Jewish father or some kind of Jewish ancestry. Too bad I couldn’t unearth… Continue reading Conversion in the News Roundup: Because the "Who is a Jew?" question is now an extreme sport!
Every Friday evening, the Nunez family sits down to a traditional religious dinner. Moshe Nunez and his family moved to Crown Heights, a New York neighborhood with thousands of Hasidic Jews. 1 of 2 Like most families in their Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, their Jewish Sabbath meal includes blessings over the wine… Continue reading This is how we do it…
I ate a vegetable. If you don’t understand the significance of this statement, then you haven’t read my Rosh Hashanah Resolutions. I never eat vegetables. Not because I dislike them or anything but because whenever I buy them, I relegate them to the bottom of the fridge where they wait (and wait, and wait, and… Continue reading Now how y’all doing?
Getting in trouble over at Frum Satire where the blogger posted my “Shabbos is for Shtupping” routine from my summer stand-up comedy class in Los Angeles. If you’ve already read the piece, go to the site comments to weigh in on whether the word “orgasms” (and possibly the whole piece itself) is immodest.
I was only kidding about making a plantain kugel. Really, it was a joke. I mean, I’d never even made a kugel before. This Shabbat, I had planned to make a squash kugel (I didn’t even know what squash was before I was Jewish) but we ate out for both meals (thank you, my cool… Continue reading Oh My G-d…IT EXISTS!
Check out: “How a Workaholic Control Freak Learned to Relax: Adventures in Shabbat”
For the second year in a row, my husband and I spent our summer in Los Angeles. Again, my husband was playing the role of rabbinic intern at a local Orthodox congregation, Bnai David Judea, where he, in fact, had his bar mitzvah. And while he was off learning to be a rabbi, everyone wondered… Continue reading Leaving Los Angeles
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