When Chanukah came on Tuesday night, I was drained like I haven’t been drained in quite some time. My baby had begun teething the night before and had woken up half a dozen times. My older son (who’s been screaming out randomly at night) also woke up several times. Despite barely sleeping, I had to […]
*Note on featured image above: This was me at Bondi Beach, Australia in 2015. I was on a speaking tour of Australia through Chabad of Sydney and Melbourne. This past week was one for the books in the most horrific sense. First, we saw never released footage of six of the hostages who were murdered […]
Bad Shabbos: The Good and the Bad by Allison Josephs I had been hearing about the indie film, Bad Shabbos, over the last year but didn’t get around to watching it until it recently came to Netflix. While people said they loved it and that it was hilarious, several of our readers reached out saying […]
Last Thursday, Ye, formerly known as (Kanye West) apologized to the Jewish people. He had a friend named DJ Akademiks post a video on X of his meeting with Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto asking for forgiveness for harming the Jewish people. He told the rabbi that he has bipolar disorder and he’s here to take […]
UPDATE: Shortly after posting our article, Mylemark removed the video from their site and YouTube (which is why the video above no longer works). We have a copy of it downloaded for our records and look forward to an apology and an investigation as to how their materials are developed. A troubling case of antisemitism […]
As a child, my father thought I watched too much television. Little did he know one day I’d have to do it for work! Nobody Wants This, season 2 premiered last Thursday, so I spent the weekend binge watching it. My 30,000 foot impression is that it was generally less tropy than the first season […]
