By Mandy Katz [caption id="attachment_1566" align="aligncenter" width="336" caption="Hanukkah caroler Jon Stewart"][/caption] "Can I Interest You in Hanukkah?" may be the first ever TV ditty sung a due by Jon Stewart and fellow faux-newsie Stephen Colbert. It's part of Colbert's upcoming TV special, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest...
[caption id="attachment_1542" align="alignright" width="252" caption="Mayoral also-ran Gaydamak"][/caption] By Mandy Katz Jerusalem voters may have told Arcadi Gaydamak, "You're fired" last week, as Nir Barkat edged him for the Jerusalem mayoralty. But don't imagine the oligarch just sitting at home counting his shekels, or making prank phone calls to...
By Jeremy Gillick The Forward has published its annual list of America’s 50 most important Jews: the Forward 50. Winners include Rahm Emanuel, Obama's newly appointed Chief of Staff, about whom you can read here. There's also Morris Allen, a Conservative Rabbi from Minnesota who helped re-invent kashrut...
We hope you've all seen our exclusive interview with actor Kirk Douglas in the September/October issue of Moment in which he talks with his rabbi, David Wolpe. Moment has published thoughts from Douglas before. Back in 1995 we published a (slightly adapted) speech that he had...
Read the current issue's Film Watch on Sixty Six, here. "Religion must die for mankind to live." When Bill Maher resolutely declares this in his new documentary Religulous (a subtle blending of the words "religion" and "ridiculous"), you can't help but cringe. Whether or not you consider...
One of the cheesier keepsakes I’ve ever bought in Israel came, not surprisingly, from a touristy shop on Jerusalem’s Ben Yehuda Street. A fridge magnet, it shows a zebra on a grassy veldt under the slogan, “Hello from Israel!” Of course there are no zebras...
Senior Editor Mandy Katz reports from Israel: Megiddo, an ancient city overseeing the mountain pass from Mesopotamia across the Jezreel Valley, supposedly saw some of history's fiercest battles. Indeed, many Christians expect an even bigger conflagration there, as the site is also called "Armageddon," a variant...
NJDC's blog alerted us to a recent Daily Show video that you can see here. It's about Jewish/Black relations, only from the distinctively funny and revealing angle that Jon Stewart and co. have made so effective. This is becoming a hot topic in election news. Just...
Our May/June issue certainly received mixed reviews from our readers due to the sexy cover image (left). But Heeb Magazine has done us one better. Their current issue features a pull-out calendar—a swimsuit calendar—of "the most beautiful Jewish women in the world." Titled "The...