Yom Kippur – Day of Awe, Go Mobile
This is the Golden Age…Everyone’s gone mobile! Is it Awe or the Atonement that gets us nervous? Either way, this Thursday is the most special day of the year. It’s the day above all others when G_d...
View ArticleBet Shemesh Sukkot Jewish Rock Festival
As a citizen of Bet Shemesh for the past 14 years, I can tell you that nothing swells our civic pride more than the awesome Jewish Rock Festival that Jonty Zwebner has brought, along with the Bet...
View ArticleRockiah – A New Jewish Rock Group in Ramat Bet Shemesh
Those who attended the Shemeshfest Sukkot festival last week at the Bet Shemesh ampitheater were treated to a talented local rock group named “Rockiah” – the English name of the band is a play on their...
View ArticleAdam Lambert is Jewish – Singing in Hebrew
Does anyone really think that Adam Lambert wouldn’t have won American Idol had it been voted on by talent judges, rather than as a popularity contest? Well, here’s another reason to like Adam. Aside...
View ArticleUN Sends Jewish Goldstone to Investigate Israel Warcrimes
“A United Nations team headed by a veteran war crimes prosecutor has begun its probe into possible war crimes by Israel and Hamas militants during Operation Cast Lead. ” Israel has not accepted this...
View ArticleFred Flintstone was Jewish
I grew up watching the Flintstones reruns. It put a twinkle in my eye when I recently read that Alan Reed, the voice of Fred Flinstone, was a Jew. Reed, born in 1907 as Edward Bergman, grew up in the...
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