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Pandemic Times

COVID-19 Crushes Israeli Real Estate Market

The novel coronavirus has quickly transformed many aspects of life, including the ability to earn a living. In Israel, approximately a quarter of the...

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Holy Week in the Holy Land: Easter in Jerusalem Amid Coronavirus

Jerusalem during Holy Week is usually filled with thousands of Christian pilgrims from around the world walking in the footsteps of Jesus. But the...

L.A. Shelter-in-Place Order Extended Until May 15

Los Angeles County officials announced on April 10 that the shelter-in-place order has been extended until May 15. Additionally, on April 15 the county will...

PA Panel Chief: Israel Using COVID-19 as Expansionist Cover

The coronavirus crisis has done nothing to slow the Israeli government’s settlement activities in the West Bank, the head of the Palestinian Authority’s Colonization...

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Passover
Passover

I In the age of closed doors and mandated distance I tried ordering Matzah online. The only single boxes, (because with only two of us eating matzah with gluten in it, we don’t...

Top Stories

Second Alabama Synagogue Vandalized With Swastika Graffiti

A second synagogue in Huntsville, Ala., was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti over the span of a couple days, authorities said. Swastikas were found on the...

Rivlin Apologizes After Having Daughter and Her Family Attend His Passover Seder

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin issued an apology via Twitter on April 10 after having his daughter and her family attend his Passover seder earlier...

Second Alabama Synagogue Vandalized With Swastika Graffiti

A second synagogue in Huntsville, Ala., was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti over the span of a couple days, authorities said. Swastikas were found on the...

Rivlin Apologizes After Having Daughter and Her Family Attend His Passover Seder

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin issued an apology via Twitter on April 10 after having his daughter and her family attend his Passover seder earlier...
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Columnists

Tonight, Let’s Also Tell Our Family Stories

One of the running themes in these pandemic times is that everything has changed — from how we approach life to what we talk...

Yad Vashem Premieres Exhibit of Sentimental Items Holocaust Survivors Clung To When Liberated

April 11th will mark the 75th anniversary when the United States Armed Forces liberated Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Although Nazis attempted to liquidate the camp...

Bernie Sanders’ Exit Is A Painful Necessity For Jews

The orthodoxy of Bernie-ism no longer mandated Medicare For All and a Green New Deal, but a sharp disdain for Jewish people-hood.

An Important Lesson from my First Seder of Four

Today, for only the second time in my life, I will have a small Seder. Just the four of us. Two children are away—one...

New Podcast

Pandemic Times Episode 18: Can family stories nourish us during pandemic times?

New David Suissa Podcast Every Morning at 11am. As we prepare to tell the Passover story, a refection on the value of our own family...

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Helping you make sense of a changing world

10 People Who Could Be The First Jewish President

So Bernie Sanders won’t be the first Jewish president. Here are 10 people who could be.

Bernie Sanders’ Exit Is A Painful Necessity For Jews

The orthodoxy of Bernie-ism no longer mandated Medicare For All and a Green New Deal, but a sharp disdain for Jewish people-hood.

Haredim Are Being Scapegoated for Coronavirus in Israel

Well done, Israeli media. After the deluge of negative headlines over the last two weeks, when COVID-19 is finally beaten back, it will be the...

The Debate About Israeli Annexation is Disingenuous

American Jews protesting the prospect of Israeli action to formalize its hold on territory aren’t defending chances for peace or a realistic plan to achieve it.

My Religion Pivoted To Zoom. Will My Faith, Too?

Three times a day, six times a week, my shul convenes on Zoom for minyan-less minyan.
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JJ Podcast Network

Pandemic Times Episode 18: Can family stories nourish us during pandemic times?

New David Suissa Podcast Every Morning at 11am. As we prepare to tell the Passover story, a refection on the value of our own family...

Let My Bagels Go

The only bagel-related thing you should be consuming this Passover is...new and classic episodes of The Bagel Report! Erin and Esther reflect on the meaning of...

Rabbi Shais Taub: How to Find the Truth About Yourself

Rabbi Taub is a prominent Chabad rabbi and an expert in Jewish spirituality and recovery from addiction. With a down-to-earth manner and talent for...

Prof. Yair Zakovitch and Prof. Avigdor Shinan: The Song of Songs Scroll

Shmuel Rosner, Professor Yair Zakovitch and Professor Avigdor Shinan discuss their new book - The Song of Songs Scroll, a New Israeli Commentary. Prof. Yair...

Episode 188: Corona, Coalition and Constitutional Crisis

These are highly turbulent times in Israel. Not only are we facing the Corona crisis with a health system that’s more or less stuck...

Rosner’s Torah Talk: Parshat Vayikra with Rabbi Jonathan Leener

Rabbi Jonathan Leener is a co-founder of Base Hillel, a new initiative in Jewish engagement, and rabbi of its Brooklyn site.. Rabbi Leener was...

JJ Bloggers

In Pandemic Times, Appreciate Artists

Dear people who keep writing long articles telling artists to stop making stuff in Corona times, and/or shaming them for sharing their work online...

Musings from the Bunker #28

Those of a certain age recall when Howard Baker, long-time Republican Senator from Tennessee, asked the question that was the beginning of the end...

Finding Togetherness

Across the world, we are finding ourselves in a situation, if not unprecedented, then certainly unlike anything most of us have seen in our...

Barry Horowitz on His Multi-Decade Wrestling Career and Top Wrestlers of All-Time

Growing up as a fan of professional wrestling, whenever I saw Barry Horowitz wrestle, I had two immediate thoughts. First, that guy is probably...

Elijah in the Time of Corona – A Passover Poem

I In the age of closed doors and mandated distance I tried ordering Matzah online. The only single boxes, (because with only two of us eating matzah with...

Too Many Gloves, Not Enough Love

This week, I was driving down Pico, and it was one of those annoying short trips where I hit every red light along the...

My Four Questions: Why Is This Year Different Than Any Other

On the night of April 8, we come together to celebrate the story of Passover and the freeing of the Jews from Egypt. In...

Culture
Culture

Lisa Kudrow, Beanie Feldstein and Emmanuelle Chriqui Land New TV Roles

“Friends” star Lisa Kudrow will return to series comedy in the Netflix workplace sitcom “Space Force,” playing opposite Steve Carrell. The premise centers on a four-star general (Carell) who...

Jesse Eisenberg to Direct His First Feature, ‘When You Finish Saving the World’

Currently on screen in the streaming releases “Resistance” and “Vivarium,” Jesse Eisenberg will go behind the camera for his next project, a family dramedy...

Jerry Seinfeld to Launch Netflix Special on May 5

At a time when we all could use a little levity, Jerry Seinfeld will provide it in “23 Hours to Kill,” his second special...

L.A. Stories

L.A. Shelter-in-Place Order Extended Until May 15

Los Angeles County officials announced on April 10 that the shelter-in-place order has been extended until May 15. Additionally, on April 15 the county will...

LA County Requires Residents to Wear Masks in Public to Curb Coronavirus

Beginning April 10, Los Angeles County will be requiring residents to wear masks in public for an indefinite period to combat the coronavirus. The Los...

Meet The Orthodox Jewish Mom Who Became LA’s Go-To Jewish Artist

Los Angeles artist Aliza Marton was raised in an artistic family. But after she got married, she focused on raising her own family and...

Hollywood

Lisa Kudrow, Beanie Feldstein and Emmanuelle Chriqui Land New TV Roles

“Friends” star Lisa Kudrow will return to series comedy in the Netflix workplace sitcom “Space Force,” playing opposite Steve Carrell. The premise centers on...

Jesse Eisenberg to Direct His First Feature, ‘When You Finish Saving the World’

Currently on screen in the streaming releases “Resistance” and “Vivarium,” Jesse Eisenberg will go behind the camera for his next project, a family dramedy...

Jerry Seinfeld to Launch Netflix Special on May 5

At a time when we all could use a little levity, Jerry Seinfeld will provide it in “23 Hours to Kill,” his second special...

Table For Five

Table for Five: Special Shabbat of Passover

One verse, five voices. Edited by Salvador Litvak, the Accidental Talmudist And Moses hastened, bowed his head to the ground and prostrated himself, and said: “If...

Table for Five: Passover

One verse, five voices.

Weekly Parsha: Vayikra

One verse five voices. Edited by Salvador Litvak, the Accidental Talmudist When you present an offering of meal baked in the oven, choice flour: unleavened...

Weekly Parsha: Vayakhel-Pekudei

One verse, five voices. Edited by Salvador Litvak, Accidental Talmudist On six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a...

Weekly Parsha: Ki Tisa

One verse, five voices. Edited by Salvador Litvak, Accidental Talmudist The rich shall not pay more and the poor shall not pay less than half a...

Poetry
Poetry

Elijah in the Time of Corona – A Passover Poem

I In the age of closed doors and mandated distance I tried ordering Matzah online. The only single boxes, (because with only two of us eating matzah with gluten in it, we don’t...

Bowing of Daffodils Around the Bridal Path

The daffodils are bowing their heads on this gray afternoon In unison. Perhaps they are ashamed To be witness to a plague. Corona may not be a direct...

In The Sea of Uncertainty

This Pesach, we tremble at the preciousness of life so we don't want to cause harm. This quaking in our bodies is an outgrowth of love. The Israelites felt...

The Oy of Cooking – a poem for Torah Portion Tzav

And this is the law of the guilt offering. It is a holy of holies. Guilt is holy. Such a part of the Jewish DNA our Book has...

Sephardic Spice Girls

Recipes for Mimouna, The Moroccan Celebration of Spring

The mimouna table overflows with sweet treats like orange jam, eggplant jam, marzipan, meringues and, of course, the famous moufleta, crepes served with butter and honey.

A Whole New Charoset Ball Game

In the Song of Songs, an allegory of the love between God and Israel, King Solomon extols the fruit of the land — apples,...

The Cauliflower Cult

Cauliflower is having a moment. The cruciferous darling of the culinary scene is starring on restaurant menus all over the world — and Israeli chefs...
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Comforts of Home

7 No-Cost Decorating Tricks For Your Quarantined Home

Now that we’re all spending so much time inside during shelter in place orders, we might as well spruce up our homes a little...

Spread Kindness With a Toilet Paper Bouquet

This week, I wanted to check on an elderly neighbor to see if she needed anything, so I left her this bouquet with a...

Quarantine Crafts: A “Let’s Stay Home” Sign Made With Old Magazines

I’ve always been a homebody, so even before it was required for us to shelter in place during the pandemic, “Let’s Stay Home” was...

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