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Jackie Hoffman Doesn’t Care If You Find The Feminist Message

Throughout March, Baruch College Performing Arts Center has been presenting a series of Jewish comediennes in partnership with the Jewish Women’s Archive and Baruch’s Jewish Studies Center called “Solo in the City: Jewish Women, Jewish Stars”. With a mix of well-known names and up-and-comers in the lineup, the series defies the temptation to draw generalizations about funny Jewesses.Jackie Hoffman, beloved ...

Free Passover Seder Haggadah Online Download

Here are several of the best places you can go online to download a Passover Haggadah for your Seder.The Jewish Agency Haggadah LinksAbout.com Online Haggadah LinksWikisource Hebrew Haggadah PageThe Union Haggadah (CCAR Classical Reform)Haggadah According to the Rite of Yemen: with the Arabic-HebrewThe Kol Menachem Haggadah: Nusach Haarizal, by Chaim MillerWe give Chabad credit for a great resource if you ...

T-Shirt of the Week: It’s A Crummy Job, But Somebody’s Gotta Do It

Attention all members of the Afikomen Search & Retrieval Unit 613! Your uniforms from Jewnion Labelare ready!But you know who’s not ready? This yenta.Yes, I should’ve been chametz-hunting this weekend like a good Jewish mama, but we all know how that usually goes for me.Instead I accompanied Yenta Boy to Athens for the Georgia State Science and Engineering Fair, where ...

Search for Chametz Android Smart Phone App

Originally for iPhone, this year there is an android app in the Google Play store for the search for chametz.The No Chametz app helps Jews go through the process of searching, cleaning, destroying and selling their chametz prior to the Passover holiday.Having Chametz in your possession can be a serious halachic issue. This app will help you make sure you properly ...

Passover Message 2013

As we celebrate the Jewish festival of Passover this year, we will ask several questions. One question I encourage all of us to ask — no matter our religion, age or current location on this earth — is how we plan to make this year different from past years?The tradition of the Passover seder is to recite the same story ...

Meet Sammie Moshenberg – Mazel Tov!

At its gala dinner on Tuesday, the National Council of Jewish Women will honor Sammie Moshenberg, Director of Washington Operations, for 30 years of service in NCJW’s Washington office.If anyone had told me when I knew her in high school that in 2008 Women’s eNews would name her one of “21 Leaders for the 21st Century,” I would not have been ...

Is the Jewish Soul Immortal?

Is the Jewish soul immortal? Yes, tradition teaches us that if the proper procedures are followed, the Jewish soul is immortal. And the immortality is redundant. The soul of a departed loved one lives on in a vertical immortality in heaven and in a horizontal immortality as part of the collective of the Jewish people.To guarantee the duplex immortality of ...

Troublemaking is an Unpredictable Sport

“When women talk about their accomplishments, it’s a signal to others to stop liking them,” said Rachel Sklar. “For men, success correlates with positive feelings. Women want to be well liked, they don’t want to rock the boat. We have to support our troublemakers.”Sklar, a speaker, writer, and creator of TheLi.st, a media platform dedicated to connecting women and promoting ...

Is Lena Dunham Jewish?

Yes, Lena Dunham is a Jew. She is creator and star of the controversial hit HBO series Girls, which “we hear” is edgy and entertaining.Wikipedia reports, “Dunham’s father is Protestant, and according to Dunham, a Mayflower descendant; Dunham’s mother is Jewish.”Dunham told the Jewish Journal: “I went to Hebrew school for, like, two weeks, and then didn’t get the part I ...

Everybody Suddenly Loves Quinoa on Pesach

Quinoa sucks and I’m sure most of you would agree, if it didn’t suck you’d have people eating it as is, like they do with rice, but instead quinoa is usually dressed up with all sorts of things to mask its earthy, nutty and dirt-like flavor. Sure, I eat quinoa once in a while, but not often enough to be ...

Where Can You Find the Best Deals on Passover Wine?

We wanted to know where to get some wine for Passover. A friend showed us wine-searcher.com and we were impressed. Here is what the site claims about their wine search service:The Wine-Searcher search engine lists 5,554,710 wines and prices from 38,491 merchants around the world, making it easy to locate and purchase wine at the best available prices. The database grows ...

QB Tim Tebow: Update on John 3:16 and Hebrews 12:1-2 and the NFL Jets

Update: Tim Tebow did not merit eternal life with the Jets. See this report, “Noisy Courtship, Quiet Breakup – Jets Dump Tebow” on the NYTimes.comThe Times ran a lengthy article about Tebow, when he entered the NFL and struggled as a QB: “In Tebow Debate, a Clash of Faith and Football”. Tebow was still over the top in his religious ...