Category
Culture
Lakers welcome back Jordan Farmar
The Lakers brought back a familiar face in (Jewish) veteran guard Jordan Farmar on Wednesday. The signing required a $500k buyout from his Euroleague team Anadolu Efes Istanbul. From the Lakers\’ press release:
Birthright Israel trip staffer almost bails for Heineken [VIDEO]
Drop everything and go. That’s the pitch made to travelers at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport in a Heineken ad campaign, who were given the opportunity to press a button that would select a vacation destination — departing immediately.
Watch: Snoop Lion helps Larry King become ‘first’ Jewish rapper
CNN star Larry King wants to become the first ever Jewish rapper, and he’s enlisted the assistance of none other than rhyming veteran Snoop Dogg Lion.
The 2013 (Jewish) Emmy nominees
The 2013 Emmy nominations are in! We won’t bore you with the whole long list, but we will share this compact yet impressive group of Jewish nominees. Here goes.
FDR: Hero or enemy of the Jews?
When I resolved to enter into the public conversation about “FDR and the Jews” by Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman (Belknap Press, $29.95), a much-talked-about book, I was reminded of the disenchantment that some Democrats felt toward President Obama when he abandoned the “public option” in Obama care. Obama was taking a progressive stance on health care, to be sure, but was he progressive enough?
Adam Levine engaged to Behati Prinsloo
Mazel Tov to Adam Levine and his brand-new fiancé, Victoria’s Secret Angel Behati Prinsloo.
New Articles
UC Davis Dissolves Law Student Association After It Proposed a BDS Resolution
Smokey Presence – A poem for Parsha Pekudei
USHMM Tribute Dinner, Hamakom Names Full-Time Cantor, Spec Labs Concert
On the Huckabee Nomination
More news and opinions than at a Shabbat dinner, right in your inbox.