In a lengthy essay published in the New York Post, we learn that filmmaker David Zucker was recently asked an inane question at an anniversary screening of his 1980 film “Airplane!”
“Could you make ‘Airplane!’ today?” an audience member...
Zach Robart, National Library of Israel
• Published October 16, 2021
Fourteen letters penned in the 1940s by the legendary rabbi known as the 'Hazon Ish' have been donated to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem by the family of their recipient, Rabbi Zvi Yehuda, one of the rabbi's students.
The Hazon Ish (Rabbi...
In honor of Halloween, we retell the controversial tale of the Witch of Endor, featuring Saul, the handsome but historically inept first king of Israel.
The language in the Torah is pretty clear about the crimes of sorcery and witchcraft, and that...
(October 13, 2021 / JNS) Former Mossad director Yossi Cohen said on Tuesday that Iran’s position is weaker than it has been in the past.
“I think that Iran, to this day, is not even close to acquiring a nuclear weapon. … This is due to longstanding...
(October 13, 2021 / JNS) A new report on anti-Semitism in Ireland provides a comprehensive and “deeply disturbing” look into how Irish politicians and activists use the guise of criticism of Israel to promote anti-Semitic accusations and tropes...
Dan Buffa, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published October 5, 2021
Harrison Bader just finished off his best overall season in the Major Leagues, but he's not thinking about that right now. There are "other" things to accomplish this October.
On the dawn of perhaps the most important game of his life -- Wednesday's...
(September 29, 2021 / Jewish Journal) Winston Churchill famously said that “nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.” In the last several days, those of us who are part of the Jewish and pro-Israel communities have been...
(Israel21c) - In bad news, a report assessing the state of trees worldwide has found that 30 percent of tree species are threatened with extinction. But in good news, it would seem that only two out of Israel’s 60 or so tree species are threatened –...
Lior Zaltzman, Kveller
• Published September 28, 2021
This is just so stinkin’ cute. Apparently, Jamie Lee Curtis is not just a loving mom to her two daughters, Annie and Ruby. She’s also a super sweet godmother to famous siblings Jake Gyllenhaal and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Curtis, the daughter of Jewish...
Since 1979, Vida “Sister” Goldman Prince has been Chairman of the Oral Histories Project, at the St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. The project is dedicated to recording and preserving audio interviews of not only Holocaust Survivors,...
In our previous article, we discussed strategies related to the very beginning of the game of American Mah Jongg. We homed in on tile organization and how to determine which hand(s) or section(s) of the card to focus on. In this article, we'll be moving...
