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Detroit Brothers’ Produce Over 500 Mobile Apps

In what could have easily been mistaken for a scene from HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, two brothers sit at a conference room table in Southfield bouncing ideas off each other for mobile applications that could improve Jewish life.A small collection of iPhones and iPads sits on the table, as one brother remarks that it would be cool if they created ...

Delta Adopts Saudi Arabian Airlines No Jew Policy

For a long time in Michigan, Northwest Airlines had its hub at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. That meant an essential monopoly on domestic flights in and out of Detroit. A few years ago Delta Airlines took over Northwest Airlines and now the vast majority of domestic flights at Detroit Metro are operated by Delta. That fact makes it especially troubling to ...

Delmon Young’s Anti-Semitic Slur and the Problem With Athletes As Role Models

I already had a blog post planned for today. I was going to write an open letter to David Stern, the commissioner of the National Basketball League (NBA) in which I was going to publicly criticize him for allowing the NBA to only give Ron Artest (er, sorry Metta World Peace) a slap on the wrist with a seven game ...

Delmon Young and Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson’s name was brought up repeatedly after the news broke about the Detroit Tigers’ outfielder Delmon Young getting arrested in Manhattan for second-degree aggravated harassment and uttering an anti-Semitic slur while he was intoxicated. Young has been given a 7-game suspension by Major League Baseball and also placed indefinitely on baseball’s restricted list.More details have been released concerning the ...

Deli Kasbah – The messianic chabad restaurant

Deli Kashbah is a rare breed of a restaurant, they proselytize while they feed you. It’s not one of those places where things are subtle. I used to frequent it quite a bit, because it was located one block from where I grew up, but I never noticed how crazy it was until I got a little older.There are TV ...

Decoupage With Fruit Labels!

Yes indeed, if you save those little stickers you often find on fruit, you can use them as fun decoupage elements! These wooden boxes got a little face lift courtesy of the necessity to clean for Passover and thus remove all those little stickers from the back of one of our cabinet doors. And so instead of cleaning and scrubbing, ...

Decorate Now With Interesting Frames and Fill Them Later (Or Don’t!)

We have lived in our current home for over three years now, and I have to admit, I’ve been a little lax in the final touch department. Before moving in I spent lots of time choosing paint colors and light fixtures, so the house has looked pretty good from the start, but recently those very blank walls that I initially ...

Deconstructing the “Sassy Gay Friend”

There’s a long tradition in Judaism of imagining different versions of our favorite stories, from rabbinic midrash to contemporary novels. Comedy troupe The Second City has thrown their hat into the ring this week with a new Youtube video in their “Sassy Gay Friend” series.Read More: @ jwablog.jwa.orgReaders found more information by searching for:sassy gay friend (7)sassy gay friend critique (2)sassy gay friend ...

Declaration of Dependence

Today is Independence Day. Guess this is one of those quirky years when it coincides with July the 4th. It is a day when we grill the flesh of bovines in our backyards and our own epidermis’ on beaches. Somewhere, deep in the hidden strata of our collective societal subconscious, we also exult in breaking the shackles of tyrannical monarchy ...

Deciding How We Fit into Jewish Day School

Earlier this week, the AVI CHAI Foundation together with the Steinhardt Foundation posed a question to the Jewish community: What would make day schools more attractive to non-Orthodox parents? This has been a key topic in the Jewish world of late, as seen with articles like this one in Sh’ma from MyJewishLearning contributers Rabbi Jill Jacobs and Rabbi Susan P. ...

Debating a Porn Star on the Merits of Holocaust Films

Yesterday I had a heated twitter debate with porn star Johnny Anglais about the merits of Holocaust movies. Really.How it started was that I wrote a blog post in August about porn star Johnny Anglais and his love of the Jews. I called him out for naming Schindler’s List as his favorite movie, which struck me as creepy. Johnny responded ...

Dear Heshy: Why are frum Jews so unhealthy?

I am sure you can relate to this, as you and I are both very physically active and health conscious. I have been bothered for years by the lack of healthy eating and physical activity of the frum community, I have wondered when people would start calling the overwhelming amount of out of shape people in the frum community the ...