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Use A Decorative Bird Cage To Make A Quick Flower Arrangement!

Okay, you’re right, it’s only quick if you happen to have that bird cage on hand! So if you happen to see one it’s a great purchase! Of course I’d just love to do this idea with real flowers but artificial ones are all that I happen to have at the moment. If you’d like to use real flowers so ...

Use A Cookie Cutter To Make Bird-Shaped Cakes!

Did you realize that you can use cookie cutters to cut cute little cakes in any shape your heart desires? And if you’re an expert with the frosting (which I am not) you could really make some gorgeous little treats! Just make sure your cake isn’t too high and you are in business. Yes, there are lots of scraps left ...

Unraveling the Mystery of Jewish Food

As a food writer you need to be prepared to answer just about any question tossed at you during a Q&A. I like to feel I know my subject matter inside and out, and I admit to late night Googling (that sounds x-rated) to research something I am not 100% certain of. While I should be dreaming of food, I ...

Unorthodox: Book Review

I read Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots. It is unorthodox. It is a rejection. But I did not find it scandalous. Not at all.Guest Post by Rabbi Eliyahu FinkThere is so much about this book that needs to be discussed. Let’s get a bit of insignificant criticism out of the way. For starters, I found the writing ...

Unity in Diversity in Ramat Beit Shemesh

In the US, and I suspect in other Jewish areas such as England as well, the Jewish community in any given area tends to be rather monolithic. For example in New Jersey, Passaic is Litivish Ultra-Orthodox, so is Lakewood. Morristown is Chabad. Monsey (ok, NY but just outside of NJ) is majority chassidic, some parts of town pretty exclusively one ...

Understanding the Past, Imagining the Future

Images and scenes etched in the minds of generations of Jewish activists-immigrant workers marching, sitting in, and striking; tear gas filling the air as riot police attack, beat and arrest union protesters; and battles with gangsters to free unions of mob domination. Freedom rides across the South, rabbis and religious leaders arrested in protests, and a generation of Jews-rank and ...

Undercover

What if you were promised you would never have another BHD (Bad Hair Day)? What’s more, what if you never again had to wonder if your roots are showing?Best of all, what if you took up a practice landing you smack dab in the ancient footsteps of generations of Jewish women?Try covering your hair for a day.I almost never think ...

Uncle Miltie and the Gang, Part II

At the temple, right after the ceremony, a man walked up to his new brother-in-law, a man he despised, and said, “May a child be named after you. Soon.”In the last “License to Kvell” I shared a little historical perspective on Jewish comics and Jewish comedy. We left off somewhere around the early 20th century. Let’s pick it up from ...

Unbeatable logic and brilliant mind of Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu is the Prime Minister of Israel. He also acts as the Chairman of Likud Party, a Knesset Member, Israel Health Minister, the Pensioner Affairs Minister of Israel and Economic Strategy Minister of Israel.Benjamin Netanyahu was born October 21, 1949, and is the first and only prime minister than is born in Israel. In 1967, Netanyahu joined the ...

Ultra-Orthodox photoshop of horrors: Round 2

In May, the Hasidic Jewish newspaper, Der Tzitung, made a lot of people angry by photoshopping Hillary Clinton out of a photo in the name of tzniut, or modesty. Within days, the incident spawned a fabulous internet meme where people photoshopped women out of iconic images. The point that photoshop should not be used to erase or alter women in images as ...

Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rally Against Internet

If Al Gore actually had invented the Internet, as he once claimed, he would be the least popular guy in any ultra-Orthodox neighborhood today. It is clear that the fervently Orthodox Jewish leaders despise the Internet and technology because they’re willing to spend over $1.5 million in a rally against the Internet next month in Queens, New York.Ever since the ...

Tzedakah: The frum communities best attribute

This Israeli dude was in America collecting money so he could marry off his daughter, he had just finished collecting in South Florida and was on his way to Atlanta for more collecting, just over the Georgia border he was pulled over for going too fast, when he showed the trooper his Israeli license, they told him he would have ...