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10 Things I Hate about Commandments
I’m a big proponent of making the Torah relevant for modern society and everyday life. Maybe it’s my whole Orthodox ...
Hannah Montana Changes Her Name To Chani Golani
Move over Rechov SumSum. Get out of the way Barney. Your time is up.Big news for people living in Israel ...
Where Are the Jewish Food Movies?
I love food movies. Like Water for Chocolate? Hot. Eat Drink, Man Woman? Steamy. Mostly Martha? Phenomenal. Chocolat? Luscious. Big ...
Books, Books, and More Books
For one day at the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, writers, and poets take the place of journalists in covering the news ...
ROI 120 Roundup: Initial Reactions
For those of you who don’t know, I wasn’t flown to Israel to perform at a comedy club in Jerusalem. ...
ROI 120 Roundup: Learning the Media
My roommate and I slept right through the alarm and woke up just in time to realize that we had ...
Dead Sea Scrolls Signify Occupation?
I’m not much of a museum person. It’s not that I’m uncultured (I mean, I am), but I may have ...
ROI 120: Tightrope Walkers, Half-Naked Trapeze, and the Future of the Jewish Community
Heshy Fried, better known as Frum Satire, is one of 120 participants in the Schusterman Foundation’s initiative ROI 120, a ...
Everybody Dance (and Daven) Now
You know what the shema has always been missing? Blonde girls in leggings. Also a DJ. And awkward dance moves. ...
What To Do With Michael Jackson’s Kids
It was only a matter of time until a halakhic question would somehow creep into the Michael Jackson madness. In ...
A Little More on Casspi
I wanted to pass along this feature article about Omri Casspi in Ha’aretz. The difference between this piece and my ...