(JTA) — Two leading Jewish hip-hop artists have adapted Adam Sandler’s 1995 breakout hit, “The Chanukah Song,” for the present moment.
Nissim Black and Kosha Dillz dropped the video for “The Hanukkah Song 2.0” just before the holiday began...
(JTA) — One of television’s most notorious cartoon antisemites is now an Orthodox rabbi.
Eric Cartman, the egomaniacal, hate speech-spouting grade schooler on Comedy Central’s long-running adult animated series “South Park,” has had a change...
Jesse Plichta-Kellar, Alma.com
• Published November 24, 2021
Ostensibly, one of the most interesting parts of living in the United States as a Jew is the “holiday season” and the inevitable deluge of Christmas merchandise. My childhood is a product of the early 2000s, so I remember a time before Hanukkah saw...
With Hanukkah right around the corner, starting Nov. 28, Jewish a capella greats Six13 release Hanukkah video: “West Side Chanukah Story,” a riff off of Steven Spielberg’s reimagining of “West Side Story,” opening Dec. 10.
One...
(New York Jewish Week via JTA) — If you click through Twitter, you may come upon a list of some 250 accounts called “Jewish Nat’l Fund Donors.”
But it’s safe to say that no one on the list has ever given any money to the actual Jewish National...
Nate Bloom, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published November 18, 2021
“Ghostbusters: Afterlife” open Nov. 19. It’s a sequel to the two hit “Ghostbusters” movies that opened in the ’80s and it makes many references to the original films. Most advance reviews of “Afterlife” are good, if not great. “Charming”...
From Groucho Marx to the Borscht Belt to Sarah Silverman, many of America’s best-known comedians have been Jewish. And so important is humor to Jewish culture that a landmark study on American Jewish identity in 2013 found that 42 percent of American...
If you have not yet run across this image on social media, give it a few hours, it's coming.
The image featuring "Chanukah Sliders" shows ground meat in the shape of dreidels, and if you look closely at the bottom, you'll see menorah's as well.
The...
Mira Fox, The Forward
• Published November 14, 2021
For many people, it’s not truly fall until Starbucks launches the Pumpkin Spice Latte. The same goes for Christmas season; when the coffee chain’s iconic red, white and green Christmas cups, filled with seasonal drinks like peppermint, chestnut praline...
(JTA) — A crochet museum in Joshua Tree, California features countless crochet animals that appear in airport ads worldwide. The National Mustard Museum in Wisconsin was founded by a Jewish condiment aficionado.
In February 2019, another niche museum...
Lior Zaltzman, Kveller
• Published November 11, 2021
Just like me, Kevin Hayes used to find his Israeli mother embarrassing in his youth — her loudness, heavy accent, and unapologetic, larger-than-life personality were all a bit much. “When I was younger, I was mad embarrassed, cause she was always...
